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"Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
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"We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own."
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"The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality."
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"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
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"Every good act is like a seed that we sow. We don't know what it will bear, but it will bear some fruit some day."
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"Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers."
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"In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ..."
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"Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and not in intelligence. It is very arrogant to assume that we are the most intelligent species when we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Both rats and monkeys have been shown to learn from error, yet we have not. More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth. Is massacring God's creations really serving God " or the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil?"
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"If all of our sins, bad habits, and poor choices were permanently inked into our skin like tattoos, we would all dress quite modestly."
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"Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character."
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"There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."
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"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness."
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"I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race-I am ashamed to belong to such a species."
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"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
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"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
Happiness
"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
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"In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards."
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"A strange mystery it is that Nature, omnipotent but blind, in the revolutions of her secular hurryings through the abysses of space, has brought forth at last a child subject still to her power but gifted with sight, with knowledge of good and evil, with the capacity of judging all the works of his unthinking mother."
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"Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact."
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