"10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction."

Ethics, Humanity, Cruelty, Mercy, Population

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"10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction."

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Ethics, Moral Foundation, Character, Influence, Values

"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Ethics, Morality, Truth, Life

"People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Ethics, Kindness, Empathy, Morality, Justice

"The Lord does not love wicked people with self-interest and involved in inquity."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Ethics, Wickedness, Faith, Justice, Morality

"It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Ethics, Integrity, Wealth, Right, Choice

"I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

Ethics, Law, Order, Respect, Morality

"Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth."

Buddha, Indian Leader

Ethics, Conquest, Goodness, Generosity, Truth

"Sometimes you will do good and not get an acknowledgement for it. Don't let that dishearten you, the world is a better place with your good deeds."

Gift Gugu Mona, South African Motivational Speaker

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"A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it."

William Penn, English Leader

Ethics, End, Evil, May

"Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?'If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn't sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information."

Margaret Mitchell, American Novelist

Ethics, Sacrifice, Duty, Values, Truth

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

Art

"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."

Blame

"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."

People

"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."

Society

"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."

History

"It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, sacrifice to exaltation - a view that could not be more alien to a modern sensibility, which regards suffering as something that is a mistake or an accident or a crime. Something to be fixed. Something to be refused. Something that makes one feel powerless."

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"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune."

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

"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

"People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."

"The Lord does not love wicked people with self-interest and involved in inquity."

"It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong."

"I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast."

"Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth."

"Sometimes you will do good and not get an acknowledgement for it. Don't let that dishearten you, the world is a better place with your good deeds."

"A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it."

"Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?'If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn't sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information."

Explore more quotes by Susan Sontag

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."

"Lying is an elementary means of self-defense."

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

"My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything."

"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."

"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."

"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."

"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune."