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"But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself"
Patrick McGoohan, Actor
"We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be"
R. D. Laing, Psychologist
"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings"
R. D. Laing, Psychologist
"Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core"
Hannah Arendt, Historian
"I don't wear leather, wool, or silk"
Alexandra Paul, Actress
"The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life"
Alexandra Paul, Actress
"Morals are private. Decency is public"
Rita Mae Brown, Writer
"I believe you have to nurture your conscience"
Loretta Young, Actress
"Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands"
Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian
"As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker"
Annie Dillard, Author
"Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds"
Jean Paul, Author
"We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance"
Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist
"Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?"
Jean Paul, Author
"Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger"
Jean Paul, Author
"In the name of noble purposes, men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another"
J. William Fulbright, Politician
"Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence"
J. William Fulbright, Politician
"They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order, is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide"
Adrienne Rich, Poet
"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil"
Elie Wiesel, Novelist
"As long as one person lives in darkness, then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people"
Bill Hicks, Comedian
"Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?"
Ivan Turgenev, Novelist
"When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists"
Walter Lippmann, Journalist
"In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual, has become natural"
Sallust, Historian
"Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist
"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours"
James Baldwin, Educator
"Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses"
James Baldwin, Educator
"The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would"
William E. Gladstone, Leader
"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right"
William E. Gladstone, Leader
"All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity"
Sallust, Historian
"Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience"
Walter Lippmann, Journalist
"Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach!"
Walter Lippmann, Journalist
"To keep the Golden Rule, we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places"
Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman
"The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity"
Nicolas Chamfort, Writer
"Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction"
Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader
"Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened"
Madame de Stael, Writer
"Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate"
Nicolas Chamfort, Writer
"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it"
Madame de Stael, Writer
"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
"This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?"
Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author
"Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand"
Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author
"Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology"
Karl Popper, Philosopher
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