“Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.”
“Speculation is the prequel to all whom accept to have to be misled Vince L. DeSalvo”
“Christian preachers [...] were intransigent. They, they said, were answerable to a higher power than the mere law of the land. Their eye was upon heaven. As they reminded their flocks, it was not the law of some imperial bureaucrat that mattered. It was the law of God. Anything that saved a soul – even if it did so at the expense of law, order or even the body that that soul inhabited – was an acceptable act. To attack the houses, bodies and temples of those afflicted by the ‘pagan error’ was not to harm these sinners but to help them. This was not brutality. This was kindness, education, reformation.”
“I would like to share an insight from Luther. In a sermon on Pentecost he affirmed that we are born with an old heart, a heart full of carnal desires and concupiscence. People desire prestige, power, money, their neighbour s goods, their neighbour s wife and so on, but God blocks their path with His commandments: You must not...; you must not...! In this situation, said Luther, it is inevitable that they would begin to look at God with a sullen eye, as an enemy of their own happiness, as the one who is the obstacle to obtaining their desires. There is a silent bitterness in sinful people against God, to the extent that, if it depended on them, they would rather that God did not even exist. When the Holy Spirit comes, here is the miracle! He presents people with a different face for God: a God who is an ally, not an adversary; a good Father who did not spare even His own Son for them; in short, a God who shows them favour. They understand that God has given them the commandments for their good. A new feeling springs up in their hearts, that of sons or daughters, and from their lips at last comes the cry, Abba, Father!”
“People are selective to what is right and wrong. They can twist and turn anything to suite their own interpretation and to justify their actions.”
“People have their favorites. The ones whom they love will never be wrong , even being caught and convicted , but the ones they hate. Will forever be wrong no matter how good they are .”
“If there exists a law against human turned God, I shall face it, I shall win it”
“If pain is too bad to be executed by everybody, and seen by everybody, is it not because it is too bad?”
“The police have a tough job and they make it even tougher with the fabricated lies they engage in with the general public.”
“Large firms are interesting places, Mr. Moran. They are their own universe, and the masters of that universe are all-knowing, even when the information is about one of their own.”
“We have distant democracy, well suited to a distant penocracy, well suited to serve a large-scale society using taximeters to control the price of all acts.”
“Illegally disconnect my electricity and we will have a problem.”
“Journalists must uphold democracy; they are its fourth and last pillar”
“If the government disability system or workers compensation system discovers that the company involved has been breaking numerous Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) laws, is it legally required to report it to OSHA?”
“In the era of public distrust of the police, it is common sense not to be a police officer.”
“When interacting with a police officer, I am aware that I am in the presence of a radiation exposed person that may be showing the long term adverse effects of those toxic exposures.”
“At its worst, crime turns parts of our country into what one journalist calls “budding Mogadishus,” named after the capital of Somalia where, for years, there has been no government: L.A.’s hot zones are tiny, intensely dangerous areas where nothing works, where law has broken down and mainstream institutions simply fail. Places where mail carriers and meter readers balk when the bullets fly. Where paramedics and firefighters are hesitant to enter because of the crossfire. Where police officers go in only heavily reinforced or with helicopters . . . . Race is part of it. According to one calculation of homicide victimization rates for men, ages 15 to 29, Hispanics in Los Angeles are killed at seven times the white rate and blacks at 21 times the white rate. Hardly any are killed by whites. Calling these places “Mogadishus” may be an insult to the Somalis. When CNN compiled a list of the ten most dangerous cities in the world in 2010, Mogadishu was not on it. Detroit and New Orleans were—in third and fourth places, after Baghdad and Caracas and ahead of Kinshasa and Beirut.”