Quote by S.I. Hayakawa
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such direct

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries. – S.I. Hayakawa

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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. – S.I. Hayakawa

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Conformity
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, “I have failed three times,” and what happens when he says, “I am a failure.” – S.I. Hayakawa

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Failure
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Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting. – S.I. Hayakawa

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Patriotism
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Extreme justice is often injustice. – Jean Racine

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In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman. – Abel Hermant, Le Bourgeois, 1906

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Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. – Thomas Szasz

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War makes thieves and peace hangs them. – George Herbert

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