Quote #15

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

More from Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  1. To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?
  2. You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
  3. Even a glass eye can see its blindness.
  4. Optimists and pessimists differ only on the date of the end of the world.
  5. The mob shouts with one big mouth and eats with a thousand little ones.
  6. Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork? (Hence the title Cannibals with Forks by John Elkington)
  7. In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
  8. If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?

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