"Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. Aesop It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations."

Ethics, Respect, Obligation, Justice, Morality

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"Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. Aesop It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations."

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

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"It isn't a natural thing to keep on worrying about the morality of one's material prosperity. These are proclivities superinduced by modern conditions of the conscience. There is a natural resistance in every healthy human being to such distressful heart-searchings."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or what is bad for people, whether they are good or bad for society in a period of evolution. May be a "voice crying in the wilderness", but only if that voice remains lively and uncompromising, it is possible to transform the desert into fertile land."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment."

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"If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

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"Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Never mistaken humility for foolishness, nor pride for power."

Gift Gugu Mona, South African Motivational Speaker

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"I resent being lied to because a lie doesn't only undermine the value of the truth, but it further denies the liar a fair chance for honesty."

Gift Gugu Mona, South African Motivational Speaker

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"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"Sadness is a vice."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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