“Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is still affirmed by those who are eager to punish it. It is in such cases that the true genius lurking behind many of our laws stands revealed. The idea of a victimless crime is nothing more than a judicial reprise of the Christian notion of sin.” StillsIdeasChristianLawSinBehindsCasesCrimeGeniusBehaviorNotionJudicialLurkingCriminalityTrue Genius Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.” IdeasChristianReligiousGoodnessBehaviorFilledPrisonGood Behavior Author:Andy Rooney
“Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.” IdeasEmotionAttitudeKnowledgeGreatnessConfidenceBehaviorWordsPositive AttitudeConsistentImpressedPower Of WordsSpoken WordIdeationWhatever You Say Book:Universal Laws of Success Source: Universal Laws of Success
“Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.” GivingShouldHumansIdeasDoneWholeTodayTogetherRaceKnowledgeStudyDegreesBehaviorAspectGardenComplexesExtraordinaryHuman RaceGood IdeasInterconnectionComplex SystemsBiosphereNonlinear Author:Murray Gell-Mann