"There's no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Morality, People, Truth, Wisdom, Power

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"There's no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far."

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"What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Let your thoughts be pure."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Evil might not prevail in the end, but it certainly doesn't fail to devastate in its time."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life?Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?"

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Morality, Character, Truth, Power, Life

"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"God's eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Morality, Truth, Ethics, Wisdom, Power

"You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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"What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others."

"Let your thoughts be pure."

"Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?"

"Evil might not prevail in the end, but it certainly doesn't fail to devastate in its time."

"The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character."

"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?"

"God's eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us."

"A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense."

"You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its actually puerile to await recommendation when what you are about to do doesn't concerns anyone."

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"A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man."

"Playing Solitaire is a non-smoking employee's smoke break."

"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."

"Dating a wo/man with a child is adoption - without the paperwork."

"We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-to most people-not important at all."

"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."

"Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours."

"When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time."

"Overrated is order."

"Prostitution' is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from."