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"The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong."
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"When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness-I am nothing."
"The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth."
"When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't be surprised by a rising generation who then behaves disrespectfully, treating life, people, and choices as if they possess little value or worth. For whether or not that was the intention, society has taught them to believe thusly."
"I have a yearning for my beautiful country, and I love its people because of their misery. But if my people rose, simulated by plunder and motivated by what they call "patriotic spirit" to murder, and invaded my neighbour's country, then upon the committing of any human atrocity I would hate my people and my country."
"I've never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are the same.' 'But the Magdalen?' 'Ah, drop that! Christ would never have said those words if He had known how they would be abused. Of all the Gospel those words are the only ones remembered."
"If you are a sparrow, don't attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don't attack the sparrow; be just!"
"Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it."
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"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."
"The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power."
"In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes."
"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."
"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."
"Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline."
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