“The true mettle of a society is in how it responds to its own failures, and accepts that a wrong to one is a wrong to all, and how there is a zero tolerance to crime.”
Source: Just Rights : Why Justice Should be A Fundamental Right
“Perhaps this is why not one of 800 sexologists attending a conference raised a hand when asked if they would trust a thin rubber sheath to protect them during intercourse with a known HIV-infected person. I don't blame them. They're not crazy, after all. Yet they're perfectly willing to tell your generation that "safe sex" is within reach and you can sleep around with impunity. It is a terrible lie.”
Source: Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
“There is no such thing as safe sex, since no one can create a condom for the soul.”
“Condoms and fandangle size:
penile sizes vary: Southeast Asian condoms, for example, may be rather small, while
African ones are large. The shape of penises is also very diverse, so not all condoms
fit all comers”
Source: Staying Healthy When You Travel: Avoiding Bugs, Bites, Bellyaches, and More, New Edition (CompanionHouse Books) Doctor's Advice on Immunization, Precautions, What to Do When Illness Strikes, and More
“Once a state has completely withered away, it is an extremely difficult task to re-create it, as Blackwell quickly discovered. If Blackwell had been under any illusions that the Quakers were a meek and passive people, he was in for a rude surprise. He was to find very quickly that devotion to peace, to liberty, and to individualism in no sense implies passive resignation to tyranny. Quite the contrary.”
Source: Conceived in Liberty Volumes I-IV
“The hedges - yes, the hedges, the very synonym of Merry England - are yet there, and long may they remain. Without hedges England would not be England. Hedges, thick and high, and full of flowers, birds, and living creatures, of shade and flecks of sunshine dancing up and down the bark of the trees - I love their very thorns. You do not know how much there is in the hedges. (1884)”
Source: The Life of the Fields, by Richard Jeffries ..
“I’d move to trim the front hedges by hand in an insane act of “yard maintenance.” This act of kaiju sized bonsai left me exhausted to attempt any more complex yard acts, but it did give me time to ponder the control a hand tool can provide.”
Source: A Pandemic Gardening Journal
“She gazed across the veranda to a formal garden beyond. An area of green lawn was set up with chairs and tables, while behind them a fountain shot water high and splashed those sitting too close to it. Behind the fountain, parterre hedges were clipped to perfection. People milled about or stood in groups chatting.”
Source: Murder at Monterey
“It is time to call this ineffectiveness, this delay in the delivery of justice what it really is – a crime, and this continuous wrong should be declared a criminal act as such by law.”
Source: Just Rights : Why Justice Should be A Fundamental Right
“My childhood was full of hedges, the tight corset of green privet that ran the entire boundary of the house, orchard and garden; those I passed on the long walk to school, hedges of hawthorn and holly, sloe, blackberry and wild rose. In spring they were a tangle of white froth and carried primroses and cowslips at their base, violets and the odd bluebell that had strayed from the woods. In winter they would be peppered with scarlet, black and rust berries, grey clouds of old man's beard and dew-speckled spiders' webs that hung like diamond necklaces in the early-morning light.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts