#rim

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#life #time

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#educators #experience #more #observation #persons

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

#crime #distinguishes #err #felt #human

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens. ↗

— Tom Allen

#attempt #attention #citizens #continued #darfur

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#crime #ever #evil #holocaust #most

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization. ↗

— John Amery

#any #being #bias #civilization #come

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#common #crime #dictatorial #free #free world

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups. ↗

— George Zebrowski

#morals #punishment #family

I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#i #lot #pretty #primordial #snakes

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative. ↗

— Melvin Calvin

#barren #each #experiment #experiments #had