What we call brazenness in a criminal we call courage in a police officer.
Morality
The Geneva Conventions prescribe that the wounded must be cared for. But they may be wounded?
The morality of the saints makes life harder for oneself. The morality of social conservatives makes life harder for others.
Our rights extend only to the property line of our own life.
The world is not governed by law but by power, expressed through law.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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