Russia moves in heavy flamethrower weapon
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people. (Walter E. Williams)
(All It Takes Is Guts)
"Man sollte nicht den Respekt vor dem Gesetz pflegen, sondern vor der Gerechtigkeit. / It is not desirable to cultivate a
respect for the law, so much as for the right. (Henry David Thoreau)"
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. (George Bernard Shaw)
There is far more to this world than taught in our schools, shown in the media, or proclaimed by the church and state. Most of mankind lives in a hypnotic trance, taking to be reality what is instead a twisted simulacrum of reality, a collective dream in which values are inverted, lies are taken as truth, and tyranny is accepted as security. They enjoy their ignorance and cling tightly to the misery that gives them identity. (Henri Bergson)(1907)