"Do you still insist on telling the truth even though you know that it could destroy this world?"

Morality, Truth, Power, Regret, Wisdom

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"Do you still insist on telling the truth even though you know that it could destroy this world?"

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"The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Morality, Malice, Benevolence, Reality, Imagination

"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."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

Morality, Suffering, Memory, Ethics, Animals

"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Morality, Action, Judgment, Ethics

"One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty and makes the creditor wait tediously. But that second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor? the debt of money or the debt of thought to mankind, of genius to nature? For you, O broker, there is not other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Debt, Justice, Truth

"There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul."

R. Alan Woods, American Author

Morality, Sin, Truth, Wisdom

"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."

Pat Robertson, American Clergyman

Morality, Being, Public, Symbol

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

George Orwell, British Author

Morality, Humanity, Behavior, Limit

"The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Morality, Sin, Love, Compassion

"He did not see at the moment how foolish it was for two of them to go on alone, nor did the King. They were too angry to think clearly. But much evil came of their rashness in the end."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Morality, Anger, Evil, Consequence

"The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?"

George Orwell, British Author

Morality, Killing, Violence, Sentimentality

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"I know that men are so eager to be one among the stars.I feel that damaged earth will never let men go off hand."

Environment, Future, Regret, Wisdom, Truth

"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"

Writing, Immortality, Truth, Future, Power

"Once upon a time in the land of Shinar, God came down to see the city and the tower. People were united and spoke in one language. Then God confound their language and caused them scattered all over the planet earth. I believe, because of our technology, there will be one computer-based language on earth. Then God will come back again and make us all scattered all over the stars constellation."

Religion, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Future

"I learn to trust someone I love..I learn to deal with heartbreak..I learn to forgive him who hurts.I never stop learning in this life."

Learning, Wisdom, Truth, Regret, Happiness

"When you've succeeded, you'd say:'Indeed I'd to go through those hell before fit into all of this happiness."

Success, Happiness, Regret, Truth, Power

"General..behold the future of weaponry.""What the hell I am seeing here, Colonel?""It's..technologart of ancient weaponry, Sir!""It's..what?"

Future, Technology, Truth, Power, Today

"When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the way."

Comfort, Trust, Happiness, Power, Friendship

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"The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."

"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."

"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."

"There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul."

"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."

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

"The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him."

"He did not see at the moment how foolish it was for two of them to go on alone, nor did the King. They were too angry to think clearly. But much evil came of their rashness in the end."

"The outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality. Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?"

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"I know that men are so eager to be one among the stars.I feel that damaged earth will never let men go off hand."

"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"

"I learn to trust someone I love..I learn to deal with heartbreak..I learn to forgive him who hurts.I never stop learning in this life."

"Sacredness inspires respect."

"Provocation is on the opposite lane of resolution."

"Not all good things come from good people."

"When you've succeeded, you'd say:'Indeed I'd to go through those hell before fit into all of this happiness."

"General..behold the future of weaponry.""What the hell I am seeing here, Colonel?""It's..technologart of ancient weaponry, Sir!""It's..what?"

"When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the way."