Tom Lantos Quotes
History is merciless.
Tom Lantos, U. S. Congressman (Democrat, CA), Interview, PBS MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, May 6, 1993
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Although we think is grizzley and macabre that throngs of people should attend executions adn percieve the spectators to be gross and insensitive, there was a bizarre kind of morality operating in many counties. At all times in history executions tend to bet botched with terrible and unnecessary suffering inflicted on the victim. When executioners do that with drug coctails or other methods of dispatching death, we tend to make institutional complaints. But as this quotation shows, the executioner was often turned on by the mob and in some cases were actually themselves killed.
The language was removed in the negotiations that followed Jefferson's draft.
To most inventors, scientists, and technologists, nature is a destructive force and part of their job is to insulate man from nature.
Thomas Peter Lantos was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from California from 1981 until his death in 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the state's 11th congressional district until 1993 and from then the 12th congressional district, which both included the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and a portion of the southwestern part of San Francisco after redistricting.
