Joe

“The prevention of evil will always require more than desirable social arrangements: it will forever require personal self-control and the conscious limitation of appetites.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left Of It

“but already there were so many laws that a man was either a lawbreaker or a hypocrite.”
― Theodore Wheeler, Kings of Broken Things

“Favorinus began with an interesting statement that it was “completely foolish and absurd” to think that just because “the tides of the ocean correspond with the course of the Moon that the Heavens govern who wins a lawsuit about an aqueduct”.”
― Alan Scribner, Marcus Aurelius Betrayed

“those who refuse to consider what they do are cloaked in the shadow of stupidity, but they enjoy the shade. It is cool and comfortable there.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, The Thicket