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"A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
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"But you can't just leave it at that!" said Anathema, pushing forward. "Think of all things you could do! Good things."Like what?" said Adam suspiciously."Well... you could bring all the whales back, to start with."He put his head on one side. "An' that'd stop people killing them?"She hesitated. It would have been nice to say yes."An' if people do start killing 'em, what would you ask me to do about 'em?" said Adam. "No. I reckon I'm getting the hang of this now. Once I start messing around like that, there'd be no stoppin' it. Seems to me, the only sensible thing is for people to know if they kill a whale, they've got a dead whale."
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"Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion."
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"Doing good things for bad people is no different than doing bad things on good people."
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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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"Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel."
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"Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good."
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"There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley."
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"Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep."
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"It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin."
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"Happiness at any price is no happiness at all."
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"Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe."
Art
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
Ethics
"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions."
Religion
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
Time
"When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn't been one big decision."
Relationship
"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."
Science
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
Education
"One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion."
Politics
"I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion."
Spiritual
"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."
Leadership
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