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"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
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"It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit."
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"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
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"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
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"Morality is contraband in war."
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"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
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"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
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"Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving."
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"It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong."
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"Relish what is good and expedient."
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"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
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"We have arrived at an intellectual chaos."
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"The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble."
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"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
Government

"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
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"The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man."
Heart

"The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature."
Art

"For me and my friends, for people who think the way I do over there, for all ordinary Soviet citizens, America evokes a mixture of admiration and compassion...You're a country of the future, a young country, with yet untapped possiblities, enormous territory, great breadth of spirit, generosity, magnanimity. But these qualities-strength, generosity, and magnanimity-are usually combined in a man and even in a whole country with trustfulness. And this has already done you a disservice several times."
Society

"Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being."
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"When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again."
Philosophy

"All Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises."
Politics
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