Sublime

If Taylor’s claim were true that black criminality is heavily genetic, we would see consistent black crime rates over time. But in fact black crime rates in America have fluctuated in relation to whites.

The improvement of man can be measured by the level of his inner freedom. The more a person becomes free from his personality, the more freedom he has.

The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.

Socrates—who, like Adam Smith, argued that people are generally good even without enforcement.

``the relapsed criminal is the rule rather than the exception,''

I’ve met with nearly 3,000 criminals, and only a handful of them have been psychopaths. But that handful was really messed up. Like, Hannibal Lecter level of creepy. I strongly doubt that one percent of the world’s population is psychopathic.

Perhaps the most thoroughly brilliant and typical man of this decade is Mr. Bernard Shaw.

It would be far better, if that were the choice—which it isn’t—to have maximum production with part of the population supported in idleness by undisguised relief than to provide “full employment”