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1 " (As Plato:) There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable. "
― Rebecca Goldstein , Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
2 " The punishment approach and bad consequences approach to treatment is the kind of thinking that is prevalent in every residential substance abuse treatment center in the United States of which I'm aware. "
― Chris Prentiss, , The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
3 " Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking. "
― Richard Dawkins , The God Delusion