"Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things."

Ethics, Necessity, Justice, Realism

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"Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things."

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"He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"It isn't a natural thing to keep on worrying about the morality of one's material prosperity. These are proclivities superinduced by modern conditions of the conscience. There is a natural resistance in every healthy human being to such distressful heart-searchings."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or what is bad for people, whether they are good or bad for society in a period of evolution. May be a "voice crying in the wilderness", but only if that voice remains lively and uncompromising, it is possible to transform the desert into fertile land."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

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"Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Never mistaken humility for foolishness, nor pride for power."

Gift Gugu Mona, South African Motivational Speaker

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"I resent being lied to because a lie doesn't only undermine the value of the truth, but it further denies the liar a fair chance for honesty."

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"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"Sadness is a vice."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

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"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."

Absence

"For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire."

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"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."

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"There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave."

Self

"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."

Reason

"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

Virtue

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

Power

"Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another, and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess."

Justice

"He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third."

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