There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
Henceforth there are to be no fixed or inviolable principles of law at all-only an endlessly changing legal response to the fashionable causes of the moment.
I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.
When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.