"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk."

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"Let thy true religion be to act right."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Animals are here to live their lives. We are here to live ours. We can live well without eating them. How pathetic it is that we have to eat a life just to live our lives!"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Develop a conscience to live by."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Ethics, Intolerance, Violence, Peace

"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Ethics, Goodness, Grace, Happiness, Guilt

"There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Ethics, Morality, Truth, Wisdom, Religion

"Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

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"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief."

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"To some extent I liken slavery to death."

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"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue."

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"The more laws, the less justice."

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