Status Updates From Resist Not Evil

"The intelligent parent would not use a whip to teach a child not to beat a dog. "

"Society, as now organized, rests upon violence and wrong."

"Statistics have shown that the number of inmates in our prisons increases with every rise in the price of food."

"Given a child falling into a river, an old person in a burning building, a woman fainting in the street, and a band of convicts would risk their lives to give aid as quickly at least as a band of millionaires."

"It may mean a plundered girlhood and abandoned womanhood, that the vengeance of the state may be appeased" this book was way ahead of its time but also released during the votes for women, or rather around that time and it further raises the question of why we are not all treated as equals with safety?

" That the original wrong will not be undone has no bearing on the case"

" If taking the life of the prisoner could bring to life the victim whom he killed there might be some apparent excuse for the punishment of death. " as someone who has survived sa, I find this equally can be applied to that. It doesn't alleviate the suffering. Him behind bars made me feel better but he didnt' do time for his crime and thievery of my body. He did time for another crime

"To judge the character of a human soul from one isolated act, would be as impossible as to judge his physical health by testing his sight or hearing alone. "

"Men would not steal sheep if they had land on which to raise mutton. Men would not explore their neighbor’s houses at dead of night, if their own were filled; and women would not sell their bodies if society left them any other fairly decent and pleasant way to live."

If I had a physical copy of this book, it would almost all be highlighted. "f the minds and energies of men were directed toward curing crime instead of brutally assaulting the victims of society, some progress might be made."

"here have been thinkers and students and historians, who did not believe in the old theory of witchcraft and evil spirits on which human punishment really rests." diversity is important in such matters as no one can determine whether one theory is better than the other or one religion other another, which causes conflict in itself, but further makes the question- how effective are trials and justice? What is true ?

"It is not difficult to imagine that if the medical profession should ever labor purely to cure disease, instead of to make money for itself, "

"When a poor person takes a thing he needs and cannot live without, there is no evidence of an ungovernable will."

"that the excuse of prevention of crime is really known to be humbug and hypocrisy, and that the real motive that causes the punishment of crime is malice and hatred and nothing else."

"Once more every detail of the tragedy is recalled to the public mind; once more each man conjures up a monster in the place of the hunted, weak, doomed victim whose act no one either fathoms or seeks to understand." bullies travel in packs, and solo.Sometimes those misplaced due to circumstance can be innocent despite heavy rumours- the book itself is a love letter to how flawed the justice system is, deep and heavy

"Men of hasty temper, of strong will, of intemperate habits, often with no means of support, all of these are more liable to crime than one who has once overstepped the bounds."

"To justify killing or penning a human being upon the theory that this prevents crime should call for the strictest proof on the part of those who advocate this course." Yeah they brought back the death penalty in some countries and how many times has it been proven that the slaughtered was innocent and another name for the crime came up? Real horror.

"The policy of hatred and violence must in the end destroy the state. "

"Every people in the world is taught that their country and their government is the best on earth, and that they should be ever ready to desert their homes, abandon their hopes, aspirations, and ambitions when their ruler calls," my great grandad equally once said the stupidest thing he ever did was go to war, leave his wife behind, return and unfortunately die. We lost many good men to war. Lest we forget.

"No single ruler, however cruel or ambitious, has ever yet been able to bring the whole world beneath his sway"

"and encourage marriage and the rearing of children, to punish infanticide and abortion, and make criminal every device to prevent population; have used their power to heal the sick, to alleviate misery and to prolong life." part two of point

"To excuse the wholesale butcheries of men by the governing powers, learned apologists have taught that without the havoc and cruel devastation of war the human race would overrun the earth; and yet every government in the world has used its power and influence to promote "- part one of point

"Countless millions of men have been used as food for guns. "

Remember kids. Those in power want you dumbed down to obey their command, because you fight for them, not for yourself. That is the baseline of war. Fight each other so you aren't focusing on the one percent sapping the world dry.

I love how this book is still applicable today, but am equally terrified by the notion and knowledge we aren't going forward as the human race.

"This ruling class, ever eager to extend its power and strength, ever looking for new people to govern and new lands to tax, has always been ready to turn its face against other powers to satisfy the ruler’s will, and without pity or regret, these rulers have depopulated their kingdoms, and carried ruin and destruction to every portion of the earth for gold and power."

"In many of the nations of the earth the real governing power has stood behind the throne, has suffered their creatures and their puppets to be the nominal rulers of nations and states, but in every case the real rulers are the strong, and the state is used by them to perpetuate their power and serve their avarice and greed."

"This admission, like the common concept, presumes that governments are good; that their duties undertaken and performed consist in repressing the evil and the lawless, and protecting and caring for the helpless and the weak."

All governments assume this standpoint, whilst simultaneously failing to protect and serve their own people, this is bizarrely a fundamental fact, where our own governments cannot protect us.

Seems like Clarence Darrow is the anarchist grandpa of America.