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“Morality says it all.Petra Hermans”
“no doubt that evil is more contagious than good, therefore, it's more powerful.”
“I swear to use my scientific knowledge for the good of Humanity. I promise never to harm any person in my search for enlightenment.I shall be courageous and careful in my quest for greater knowledg...”
“I appreciate life so much after I see people die. It is always just such a reminder that every moment -- this is all we have. This is it. I don't know if there is anything before or after, but this...”
“Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right.”
“Solzhenitsyn described this: It would be hard to identify the exact source of that inner intuition, not founded on rational argument, which prompted our refusal to enter the NKVD schools People can...”
“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.”
“In its report issued that year, 1991, Amnesty International recorded protests against human rights abuses in over fifty countries, the protest to thirteen countries making specific reference to tor...”
“When we see something different, we judge them either bad or good. But when see something similar we take it as a norm. So does it justify that morality is the epitome good or bad, or vice versa.”
“If you have to hang a man you could have put on a better trail, you aren't entitled to own a rope.”
“One last point. Remember that, as I said, the right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge. When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left...”
“...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.”
“Moral indignation is too precious an export to be wasted at home”
“Thou shalt have one God only; whoWould be at the expense of two?No graven images may beWorshipped, except the currency:Swear not at all; for, for thy curseThine enemy is none the worse:At church on...”
“Whereas I would argue that style is morality: morality detailed, configured, intensified. Its not in the mere narrative arrangement of good and bad that morality makes itself felt. It can be there ...”
“Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.”
“At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.”
“Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.”
“Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.”
“[Anything which] is a living thing and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immoralit...”
