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"But you can't just leave it at that!" said Anathema, pushing forward. "Think of all things you could do! Good things."Like what?" said Adam suspiciously."Well... you could bring all the whales back, to start with."He put his head on one side. "An' that'd stop people killing them?"She hesitated. It would have been nice to say yes."An' if people do start killing 'em, what would you ask me to do about 'em?" said Adam. "No. I reckon I'm getting the hang of this now. Once I start messing around like that, there'd be no stoppin' it. Seems to me, the only sensible thing is for people to know if they kill a whale, they've got a dead whale."
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"Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion."
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"Doing good things for bad people is no different than doing bad things on good people."
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"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"
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"Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good."
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"Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep."
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"It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin."
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"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right."
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"Never sacrifice what's right for what's convenient."
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"Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue."
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Explore more quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
Man

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
Being

"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."
Happiness

"The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family."
Family

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
Art

"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."
Love

"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."
Existence

"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
Poetry

"One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!"
Blood

"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
Fact
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