It is worth noting, by the way, that the most sentimental people, who are loudest against the right to wage a just war, to execute a criminal, are just the people who are most likely to be in favour of ‘putting incurables out of their pain,’ which the commandment against murder most emphatically forbids.--Hilaire Belloc, via "The Daily Eudemon", via TSO
"You can be very caring and still be extremely dangerous." -- S., one of my instructors in nursing school
Anthony Esolen on sentimentality
