"The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes." -Lady Marguerite Blessington [Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington] (1789-1849) Irish novelist.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Marguerite.Blessington.Quote.07C1
"As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime." -Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Oscar.Wilde.Quote.89B8
"[W]e are living in a sick Society filled with people who would not directlysteal from their neighbors but who are willing to demand that the government doit for them." -William Comer American author Source: Avoiding The High Cost Of Dying (And Many Other Financial Dilemmas)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.Comer.Quote.D563
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