"Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy."

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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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"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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"Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth."

Buddha, Indian Leader

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"The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete."

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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."

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"The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it."

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"When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for."

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"But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school."

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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."

"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."

"Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth."

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"The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete."

"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."

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

"Patience is the food of understanding."

"What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method."

"The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it."

"When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for."

"But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school."