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“One of the greatest of human follies is that we think we know ourselves so well, that we know how we would act under any conditions, that we would under any circumstance 'do the right thing.' Well,...”
“Sometimes it's difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in.”
“In the deepest, most central place of our being, we don't want to cross God and our not wanting to is the beginning of wisdom.”
“it is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation”
“Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.”
“And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to ...”
“Morality is a easy horse to ride when all the horses are just black and white.”
“We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.”
“The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.”
“That is morality,I make myself imagine that it is personal.”
“Do what is right and be prepared to pay the price.”
“Just handle what's in front of you now. and the future will take care of itself. Otherwise, you'll spend most of your life wondering which foot you'll use to step off the curb when you're still onl...”
“If a bully mocks you, just think about your positive values compared to the bully and ignore his or her harsh comments.”
“How simple love would be, Younger Brother, if we only had to bestow it on those who deserved it. Yet what would it be worth? If you gave a poor man a silver coin then that would be a gift. If you e...”
“Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were.There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most...”
“If words come upon our minds, we should express them in order to free ourselves from high anxiety.”
“Don't hate yourselves because you will regret in the future. Your souls may be valuable in society.”
“Somehow," she said coldly, "you have confused profitable and not profitable for right and wrong. I, however, have not.”
“For him morality was neither conformism nor philosophic wisdom, but living the infinite fullness of possibilities. He believed in moralitys capacity for intensification, in stages of moral experien...”
“For some people a thing may be right, and for others it may be wrong. There is no greater truth to morality -it is merely an opinion.”
