A Quote by William Blake
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.
Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.
Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating.
Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.
Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.
Words are not thoughts, just like bricks are not homes. But houses are made with bricks. If you have less bricks, you will make a small house. The more words you have, the clearer your thoughts, and the more clearly you can convey them.
Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.
Everybody is always raving about the Rolling Stones, saying, 'The Stones this, and the Stones that.' I've never cared for the Stones. They never had anything to offer me musically, especially in the drumming department.
Before people break the law, they need strong families - adult authority figures and the love of the family. When they step over the line, I'm a Tory. I believe in tough responses, in the law coming down on people like a ton of bricks.
Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.
To pray to this God or that God or this religion and that religion or no religion at all, that's the reason why we built America. And that is still very much what we do in this country unless you're brown.
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
It is a huge asset to law and order that serious or persistent criminals should be taken out of the society on which they prey. It makes life safer for the law-abiding and on the whole prisons are pretty good at containing those who have been committed to them.
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