Quote by Spiro T. Agnew
There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded. I think its one of the tendencies of the liberal community to feel that every person in a nation of over 200 million people can be made into a productive citizen. Im realist enough to believe this cant be. Were always going to have our prisons, were always going to have our places of preventive detention for psychopaths, and were always going to have a certain number of people in our community who have no desire to achieve or who have no desire to even fit in an amicable way with the rest of society. And these people should be separated from the community, not in a callous way but they should be separated as far as any idea that their opinions shall have any effect on the course we follow.
Summary
This quote suggests that there are individuals in society who cannot be rehabilitated or integrated into the community, and that it is unrealistic to believe that every person can become a productive citizen. The speaker emphasizes the need for prisons and preventive detention for psychopaths, as well as the separation of those who have no desire to contribute or fit in with society. The intention is not to be callous, but rather to prevent these individuals from influencing the decision-making process or the direction society takes.
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