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The majority is the best way, because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
There is… no point in deliberately flouting public opinion; this is still to be under its domination, though in a topsy-turvy way. But to be genuinely indifferent to it is both a strength and a source of happiness.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not infrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.
Cause | Love | Paradox | Revenge | Self | Self-love | Strength | Weakness |
Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
Is there anyone who exerts himself even for a single day to achieve humanity? I have not see any who had not the strength to achieve it.
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have both died the victims of murder assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses. An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. Morality is never upheld by legalized murder.
Death | Evil | Husband | Justice | Law | Life | Life | Morality | Mother | Murder | Retaliation | Murder |
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new... Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and manysideedness... Cheerfulness, and often Confidence, that is a mind devoid of fear, the highest good.
Cheerfulness | Confidence | Fear | Good | Mind | Money | Strength | Happiness | Think |