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"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate, and conservatives as less caring"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose"
John F. Kennedy, President
"Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world, but in the processes loses his soul"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes"
Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer
"We are all selfish, and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive"
Lord Byron, Poet
"Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms"
Lord Byron, Poet
"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it"
Lord Byron, Poet
"Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure"
Lord Byron, Poet
"In England, the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy"
Lord Byron, Poet
"We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it"
Lord Byron, Poet
"If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
"Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead"
James A. Baldwin, Author
"People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions"
Martin Luther, Professor
"Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
"We are punished by our sins, not for them"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
"The world laughs at another man's pain"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"Virtue lies in the middle ground"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
"Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
"Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
"I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
"For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
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