Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
-Benjamin Lichtenberg
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If taking a bath in the holy Ganges can really wash off your 'sins', then why are
poor criminals put behind bars? Giving them a dip in the Ganges, why aren't
their 'sins' also washed off?
-Deep Trivedi
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
-Mark Twain
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
-Michel Foucault
Releasing the pressure, it's good for the teapot and the water. Try it sometime.
-Jeb Dickerson
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
-Steven Kloves
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice that love gives is a surrender; justice that law gives is a punishment.
-Mahatma Gandhi
