"It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities."

Morality, Fear, Evil, Personal, Rejection

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"It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities."

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"The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Morality, Malice, Benevolence, Reality, Imagination

"We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

Morality, Suffering, Memory, Ethics, Animals

"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Morality, Action, Judgment, Ethics

"One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty and makes the creditor wait tediously. But that second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor? the debt of money or the debt of thought to mankind, of genius to nature? For you, O broker, there is not other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Debt, Justice, Truth

"The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality."

Pat Robertson, American Clergyman

Morality, Being, Public, Symbol

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

George Orwell, British Author

Morality, Humanity, Behavior, Limit

"The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Morality, Sin, Love, Compassion

"The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?"

George Orwell, British Author

Morality, Killing, Violence, Sentimentality

"No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior, by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol-cross or crescent or whatever-that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race. Its various allegories are the charts against which he measures himself and learns to know what he is. It cannot teach man to be good as the textbook teaches him mathematics. It shows him how to discover himself, evolve for himself a moral code and standard within his capacities and aspirations, by giving him a matchless example of suffering and sacrifice and the promise of hope."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Morality, Faith, Humanity, Behavior

"Let us think about our attitude of compassion and understanding with which we choose to respond to what is happening around us."

Kishore Bansal, Indian Writer

Morality, Compassion, Understanding, Attitude, Choice

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"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

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"By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself."

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"You gain power by pretending to be weak."

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"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

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"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."

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"If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can."

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"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing."

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"The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."

"We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own."

"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."

"The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality."

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

"The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him."

"The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?"

"Let us think about our attitude of compassion and understanding with which we choose to respond to what is happening around us."

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"There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die."

"Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it."

"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."

"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

"By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself."

"You gain power by pretending to be weak."

"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."

"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing."