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“What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate them. Doubtless many times these new possibilities were declared by a man who, quite unconscious of courage, bore the "sense of being an exile, a condemned criminal, a fugitive from mankind." Did every one so feel who, in order to travel on his own proper path had been obliged to leave the traditional highway?”

Source: Peace and Bread in Time of War

“In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison; when a woman fails as a mother, we offer her social services. We're taking a criminal approach to men, a social services approach to women.”

Men Mother Social Failing Offers Approach Prison Criminals Wallets Social Service

Author:Warren Farrell

“At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time.”

Ends States Bigs America Names Failing Ultimate Criminals Fraud Conspiracy End Times Limitless

Author:Matt Taibbi

“Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.”

Ifs May Use Novel Forever Failing Mystery Reader Kings Honor Promise Pages Criminals Stealing Mysterious Poison Plot Conspiracy Swear Moderation Clue Gang Swarms Mystery Novels

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.”

Ifs Way Suffering Loss Virtue Failing Youth Findings Deny Criminals Vehement

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)

“The gospel of submission, commitment, decision, and victorious living is not good news about what God has achieved but a demand to save ourselves with God’s help. Besides the fact that Scripture never refers to the gospel as having a personal relationship with Jesus nor defines faith as a decision to ask Jesus to come into our heart, this concept of salvation fails to realize that everyone has a personal relationship with God already: either as a condemned criminal standing before a righteous judge or as a justified coheir with Christ and adopted child of the Father.”

Source: Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

“We will never be able to understand the terrible things that happened between 1933 and 1945 if we deny from the outset that Hitler also had human characteristics, and if we fail to take into account not only his criminal energies, but also the appealing qualities he had.”

Ifs Humans Able Energy Quality Failing Happened Terrible Accounts Deny Criminals Characteristics Terrible Things

Author:Volker Ullrich

“Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a solid citizen, the embodiment of hard work and rugged individualism. You're no criminal. The criminal is the guy who comes up short, who gets caught, who fails to adopt a respectable cover.”

Hard Guy Left Failing Century Hard Work Citizens Fortune Caught Come Up Criminals Individualism Respectable Dutch Embodiment Rugged Colonels Rugged Individualism

Author:Luc Sante

“The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.”

Justice Failing Criminals Justice System Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Backup

Author:Ralph Nader