"No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand."

Ethics, Goodness

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"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Not all good things come from good people."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"MamA believed in loyalty above all, even at the cost of self-denial. She also believed it was always best to tell the truth, to tell it plainly, without fanfare, and the more disagreeable the truth, the sooner you had to tell it."

Khaled Hosseini, Afghan Novelist

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"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us, shedding light over this world can alone help us."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task."

Barack Obama, American President

Ethics, Values, Honesty, Responsibility, Courage

"I think that's shameful, even if it's just a story, to propose an afterlife for evil... Any afterlife notion is a manipulation and a sop. It's shameful the way the unionists and the pagans both keep talking up hell for intimidation and the airy Other Land for reward."

Gregory Maguire, American Novelist

Ethics, Morality, Afterlife, Truth

"Never sacrifice what's right for what's convenient."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Ethics, Sacrifice, Right, Convenient, Principles

"Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Ethics, Prudence, Virtue, Morality, Behavior

"I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

Ethics, Reflection, Moral, Decision

"It is incredible that this must be said, but the obvious seems to escape politicized academics, so we must state the obvious: Genocide is deliberate; it is premeditated. There is no genocide without premeditation. The murders are not unfortunate coincidences. This is why it is called "mass MURDER" and not "mass MANSLAUGHTER."

A.E. Samaan, American Author

Ethics, Genocide, Truth, Justice, Clarity

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"Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions."

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"The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn."

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"What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization."

Peace, War, Running, Trouble

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"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."

"Not all good things come from good people."

"MamA believed in loyalty above all, even at the cost of self-denial. She also believed it was always best to tell the truth, to tell it plainly, without fanfare, and the more disagreeable the truth, the sooner you had to tell it."

"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us, shedding light over this world can alone help us."

"I think that's shameful, even if it's just a story, to propose an afterlife for evil... Any afterlife notion is a manipulation and a sop. It's shameful the way the unionists and the pagans both keep talking up hell for intimidation and the airy Other Land for reward."

"Never sacrifice what's right for what's convenient."

"Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality."

"I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys."

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"Don't tell me peace has broken out."

"It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead."

"No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand."

"Temptation to behave is terrible."

"Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong."

"Grub first, then ethics."

"Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse."

"Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions."

"The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn."

"What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization."