"Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct."

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"Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct."

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"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

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

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"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

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"To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."

Nelson Mandela, South African Statesman

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"Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it."

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"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."

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

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

"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."

"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts."

"Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said."

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

"To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."

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"You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end."

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"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."

"Do not try to be humble: learn humility."

"Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge."

"Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it."

"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."

"The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real."

"Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow."