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"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use, it finds despicable"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
"To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"
W. H. Auden, Poet
"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good"
W. H. Auden, Poet
"We're all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us stay greedy"
Eli Khamarov, Writer
"'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do!"
Robert Browning, Poet
"A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it"
Frederick Douglass, Author
"The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
"Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author
"The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision"
George Eliot, Author
"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled"
Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist
"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder"
George Eliot, Author
"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves"
Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary
"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil"
Plutarch, Philosopher
"Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage"
Plutarch, Philosopher
"If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed, and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect"
Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer
"Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted?"
Margaret Thatcher, Leader
"I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph"
Margaret Thatcher, Leader
"One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success"
Ashley Montagu, Scientist
"Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"One is often guilty by being too just"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
"Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality"
John Locke, Philosopher
"An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; a villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards"
John Locke, Philosopher
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues"
Rene Descartes, Mathematician
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis"
Dante Alighieri, Poet
"And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too"
Simone Weil, Philosopher
"Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest"
Charles Baudelaire, Poet
"Be just before you are generous"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people"
William Blackstone, Judge
"I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me"
Terence, Playwright
"The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks"
Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer
"In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes"
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist
"Evil requires the sanction of the victim"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases"
John Adams, President
"Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws"
John Adams, President
"Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism"
Anton Chekhov, Dramatist
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