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Ethics Quotes
"The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble."
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"Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."
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"React with how can I help you versus how can I hurt you."
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"Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy."
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"Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-managed."
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"I, myself, have killed six people. All random, all undetected, no way to trace them to me. And, let me tell you, there's nothin' like it. It's a great feeling. Yeah, I know, you're thinking. 'Aw, he's a comedian. He's just sayin' that stuff.' Good. That's exactly what I want you to think."
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"When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness-I am nothing."
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"You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment."
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"No, justice has not ceased to exist. How could it? It is possible for men to abandon their sight of it, and then it is justice that destroys them. But it is not possible for justice to go out of existence, because one is an attribute of the other, because justice is the act of acknowledging that which exists."
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"On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence."
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"A conscience without regrets ~ to live life without having to say you're sorry."
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"Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do."
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"Malice is only another name for mediocrity."
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"The product of scientific achievements should be for sale. The scientist should not."
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"You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes."
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"If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation."
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"Long ago, I stopped buying- let alone reading, books that talk about organizational success but fail to emphasize the importance of TRUST."
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"There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things."
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"There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living."
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"Over time, your actions betray your heart - for good or for evil."
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"Abortions are never seen as a positive thing, as any other operation to remedy a potentially life-ruining condition would."
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"It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try."
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"Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself."
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"Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists."
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"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."
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"Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion."
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"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
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"Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights."
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"To Garan's credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire learned positively nothing, thanked her for it specifically. "Best dungeons I ever been in," he said, chewing on a toothpick."Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he had gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers."
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"Apparently the rarest commodities on earth are truth and honesty."
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"Humans are at their best when alleviating the suffering of another living thing."
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"Don't we get it? To put our arm around someone who is gay, someone who has an addiction, somebody who lives a different lifestyle, someone who is not what we think they should be doing that has nothing to do with enabling them or accepting what they do as okay by us. It has nothing to do with encouraging them in their practice of what you or I might feel or believe is wrong vs right.It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend."
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"Is this how it is with lies? The first one comes hard, the second one easier, until they slip off your tongue easier than truths - maybe because they are easier than truths."
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"But we-' she glanced at him as if to ascertain his position, 'we see each other only now and then-''Like lights in a storm-''In the midst of a hurricane,' she concluded, as the window shook beneath the pressure of the wind."
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"Harry, life isn't simple. There is such a thing as black and white. Right and wrong. But when you're in the thick of things, sometimes it's hard for us to tell. You didn't do what you did for your own benefit. You did it so that you could protect others. That doesn't make it right - but it doesn't make you a monster, either. You still have free will. You still get to choose what you will do and what you will be and what you will become."
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"Reason of itself, independent on all experience, ordains what ought to take place, that accordingly actions of which perhaps the world has hitherto never given an example, the feasibility even if which might be very much doubted by one who founds everything on experience, are nevertheless inflexibly commanded by reason; that, for example, even though there might never yet have been a sincere friend, yet not a whit the less is pure sincerity in friendship required of every man."
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"If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right."
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