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Morality Quotes
"You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape " the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes " we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality."
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"Revenge is a bad policy if you gain nothing out of it, but under the same circumstances, forgiveness is even a worse one."
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"In all ThA©nardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness, rage, absurdity; the hodgepodge of genuine distress, and lying sentiment, the shamelessness of a vicious man rejoicing in viciousness, the bare crudity of an ugly soul -- in this eruption of all suffering and hatred there was something which was hideous as evil itself and still as poignant as truth."
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"Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power...."
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"We recklessly attempt to disguise our 'greed' by dressing it in the garb of other nobler ideals such as 'rights' and 'privileges.' Yet, if we dare dress 'greed' in an authentic sense of thankfulness, greed will suffocate within the folds of that very clothing."
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"Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone's misery is their own stupidity and laziness."
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"If there is anything the leaders in the society or the nations must take note of is to know the importance of justice."
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"If you are only 'moral' or only 'sincere', even then you will go to moksha!"
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"If you do not understand the Golden Rule, which is the most important law in the universe, then you are in trouble. All other rules in your holy books combined - are not as valuable as the ONE Golden Rule. Take two minutes to learn the most crucial law in life. Killing another human comes with the highest penalty, regardless of how you justify it. All life is sacred."
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"What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?"
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"The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature."
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"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."
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"We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary."
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"Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?"
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"There are two paths that you must never leave in your life: The path of peace and the path of reason!"
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"I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centered, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal."
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"Deceivers are the most hideous creatures in the world."
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"If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?"
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"Life is indeed terribly complicated-to a man who has lost his principles."
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"When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar."
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"There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan."
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"To see others' faults is a terrible mistake!"
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"Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends."
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"Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!"
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"Without morality and ethics there is no religion (dharma), the foundation of religion is morality and ethics."
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"Now, sprawled comfortably in his motel bed, Anson Sharp enjoyed the sleep of the amoral, which is far deeper and more restful than the sleep of the just, the righteous, and the innocent."
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"You find God by looking within. Looking at the outside world trying to find God is like looking through a telescope at the Moon trying to find atoms and molecules."
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"Conscience. Imagine being pursued by your own conscience. A mountain of conscience. Throwing a lengthening shadow. Growing. Darkening."
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