"Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable, it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group."

Ethics, Equality, Morality, Justice, Principle

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"Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable, it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group."

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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."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Ethics, Environment, Morality, Responsibility, Power

"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."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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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?"

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Never sacrifice what's right for what's convenient."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue."

Christina Engela, South African Author

Ethics, Religion, Violence, Justice

"I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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"It is wickedness when you receive blessing and not giving blessing to people."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"All those who are not straightforward (frank and forthright) in this world are full of deception."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization."

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"The main reason that violence correlates with low socioeconomic status today is that the elites and the middle class pursue justice with the legal system while the lower classes resort to what scholars of violence call "self-help."

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"Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world."

Education, Knowledge, Boundaries, Observation

"Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite. No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery. The question has been answered in the history books, the newspapers, the ethnographic record, and the letters to Ann Landers. But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another."

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"We enjoy the peace we find today because people in past generations were appalled by the violence in their time and worked to reduce it, and so we should work to reduce the violence that remains in our time."

Society, Peace, History, Responsibility, Truth

"Personality and socialization aren't the same thing."

Personality,

"Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs."

Ethics, Violence, Strategy, Survival, Nature

"A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even in the best of times."

Sociology, Society, Solidarity, Youth, Power

"But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo."

Possibility,

"I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker."

Radical,