A child who fears excessive retaliation for even minor offenses will learn very early on that to lie is to protect himself.... If ...your child intuits that you will react very punitively to his wrongdoing, he may be tempted to lie and may become, as time goes on, a habitual liar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of our enemies, ...you must excuse me for saying it is high time, by other lessons, to teach respect to the dictates of humanity; in such a case, retaliation becomes an act of benevolence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The essence of guerrilla warfare is to establish foci, or liberated areas, in the countryside and to set up small military units w...hich will gradually grow in strength, number and equipment--from squads to companies and regiments, eventually to divisions and armies, as in Yugoslavia and China during the Second World War--in order to fight battles against government troops. In the liberated areas, the guerrillas establish their own institutions, conduct propaganda and engage in other open political activities. None of this applies to terrorists, whose base of operations is in the cities, and who have to operate clandestinely in small units. Any major concentration would immediately expose them to retaliation by the government. The terrorists may be part of a political movement that engages in propaganda and other political activities (such as the IRA and the Basque ETA), but there is a strict division of labor between the legal and the military arms of the movement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The retaliation is apt to be in monstrous disproportion to the supposed offense; for when in anybody was revenge in its exactions ...aught else but an inordinate usurer?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing:... When they talked of their Raphaels, Corregios and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I always draw a parallel between oppression by the regime and oppression by men. To me it is just the same. I always challenge men... on why they react to oppression by the regime, but then they do exactly the same things to women that they criticize the regime for.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »