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H. L. Mencken

"Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right."

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"Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right."

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"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"

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"And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt."

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"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

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"He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing."

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"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."

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"Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity."

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"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."

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"Let thy true religion be to act right."

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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."

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"Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful."

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"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
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"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it."
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"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
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