“We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.” HumansMayStatesPoliticsResultsKnownTakenRiskActivityJudgmentAccountsCriminalsGravesInevitableHuman LifeEngagingRecklessDisregardImplicit Author:Sandra Day O'Connor
“The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly future of mankind; Orthodoxy gave away the earth into the hands of the state because of its own non-belief in man and mankind, because of its nihilistic attitude towards the world. Orthodoxy does not believe in the religious ordering of human life upon the earth, and it compensates for its own hopeless pessimism by a call for the forceful ordering of it by state authority.” MenWorldBelieveHumansDoeStatesHandsEarthBeliefReligiousAttitudeMankindAuthorityHuman LifeSoilHopelessPessimismOrthodoxyUnitingAbsolutismFuture Of Mankind Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.” HumansStatesShowsExerciseLimitsTendenciesHuman LifeDisputesGreat Power Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.” WantWritingHumansLongWarStatesWishAliveConstantHuman LifeDemonInternals Author:Tanith Lee