"To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny."

Morality, Open, Public, Tyranny

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"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Righteousness, Slavery, Sin, God

"Conquer hate with love and evil with goodness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Conquer, Hate, Love, Goodness

"Morality is good when we use it to live our lives but not to hurt anyone."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Morality, Good, Live, Hurt

"In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Morality, Reward, Goodwill, Patience, Life

"Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care. The point is to make sure those in your life know beyond doubt that you do care."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Morality, Care, Truth, Behavior, Emotion

"This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Morality, Wisdom, Truth, Life, Power

"If any morality or ethics does not include kindness as their fundamental ingredient, then they are just an absurdity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Morality, Ethics, Kindness, Absurdity

"Good and evil are both within us. And when our primitive ancestors humanized these natural qualities of the mind, they got two completely opposite supernatural characters. One was the merciful lord almighty and the other was the wicked devil."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Morality, Truth, Power, Life, Inspirational

"Hand holding sword is always an ugly hand!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Morality, Truth, Power, Regret, Life

"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Morality, Change, Ethics, Self-Improvement

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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."

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"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."

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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

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"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."

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"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."

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"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."

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"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."

"Conquer hate with love and evil with goodness."

"Morality is good when we use it to live our lives but not to hurt anyone."

"In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange."

"Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care. The point is to make sure those in your life know beyond doubt that you do care."

"This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins."

"If any morality or ethics does not include kindness as their fundamental ingredient, then they are just an absurdity."

"Good and evil are both within us. And when our primitive ancestors humanized these natural qualities of the mind, they got two completely opposite supernatural characters. One was the merciful lord almighty and the other was the wicked devil."

"Hand holding sword is always an ugly hand!"

"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."

Explore more quotes by Simone Weil

"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."

"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."

"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."

"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."

"Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat."

"The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know."

"To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself."

"A mind enclosed in language is in prison."

"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."