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"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."
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"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."
"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
"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."
"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."
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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."
"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
"No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."
"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."
"I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary."
"The value system of a country comes from the pulpit."
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