"I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough."

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"Morality is contraband in war."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"People today...it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"By failing to live by the letter of the texts, while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally."

Sam Harris, American Author

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"Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her knee upon his breast! How many times, thrown to the ground by the light, had he cried to it for mercy!"

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing-or more complicated-than it is today."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

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"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust."

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"He has the most who is most content with the least."

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"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music."

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"It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."

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"It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little."

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"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."

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"I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give."

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"Morality is contraband in war."

"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."

"We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality."

"People today...it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice."

"Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it."

"By failing to live by the letter of the texts, while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally."

"Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters."

"Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing-or more complicated-than it is today."

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"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust."

"He has the most who is most content with the least."

"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music."

"It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."

"It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little."

"I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be."

"We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less."

"I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance."

"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."

"I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give."