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"The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion"
Matthew Arnold, Poet
"Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil"
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author
"Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised"
Juvenal, Poet
"No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly"
Juvenal, Poet
"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible"
Hannah Arendt, Historian
"Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless"
Hannah Arendt, Historian
"Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep"
Quentin Crisp, Writer
"The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high"
J. William Fulbright, Politician
"Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure"
Sallust, Historian
"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means"
Sallust, Historian
"Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race"
William E. Gladstone, Leader
"What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist
"To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral"
Abbie Hoffman, Activist
"Understand that legal and illegal are political and often arbitrary categorizations; use and abuse are medical or clinical distinctions"
Abbie Hoffman, Activist
"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount"
Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist
"States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
"What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others"
William Golding, Novelist
"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted"
Andrew Carnegie, Businessman
"The world is not going to be saved by legislation"
William Howard Taft, President
"The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost"
M. Scott Peck, Psychologist
"Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it"
George Sand, Novelist
"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked"
Walter Savage Landor, Poet
"Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm"
Hippocrates, Scientist
"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights"
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher
"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics"
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet
"Nobody does good to men with impunity"
Auguste Rodin, Sculptor
"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, Clergyman
"Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason"
James Carville, Lawyer
"History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them"
B. R. Ambedkar, Politician
"Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility, which is an essence of the true religious act"
B. R. Ambedkar, Politician
"There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history"
James Lovelock, Scientist
"Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality"
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet
"Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt"
Thomas Moore, Poet
"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means"
Georges Bernanos, Author
"How goodness heightens beauty!"
Milan Kundera, Writer
"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles"
George Jean Nathan, Editor
"Human nature is not black and white, but black and grey"
Graham Greene, Playwright
"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered"
Graham Greene, Playwright
"Murder begins where self-defense ends"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
"Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture"
Charles W. Pickering, Judge
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