Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.

When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out — that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.