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[Quote No.61132] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] Even if a person would receive no other reward besides the joy and pleasure he has from performing a good deed, it would be sufficient!
" - Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov
founder of the chassidic movement
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[Quote No.61140] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect." - Thomas S. Monson
(1927- ) President of Brigham Young University
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[Quote No.61143] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics: reciprocity and the Golden Rule of treating others as you'd like to be treated; equal inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and property; freedom, individualism, diversity and tolerance; live and let live:] Individuals, groups and societies that value and support freedom from 'fraud and force' should not be surprised to see as a consequence increasing numbers and extremes of radical - but still honest, peaceful, tolerant and voluntary, - minorities and individuals." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.61162] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts:] When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
" - Edmund Burke
'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents', 1770.
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[Quote No.61169] Need Area: Friends > General
"The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities [including individuals]." - Lord Acton
(1834-1902), John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, historian.
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[Quote No.61219] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Equality before the law:] A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left." - William O. Douglas
(1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Source: New York Times, 20 January 1980.
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[Quote No.61221] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Poem about freedom, individualism, identity and authenticity:-]
By honors, medals, titles,
no true man is elated.
To realize that which we are,
this is the honor
for which we are created.
" - Angelus Silesius
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[Quote No.61243] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth [love and service], and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments [positive cultural and technical evolution]." - Horace Mann
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[Quote No.61248] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics: Good] Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking." - J. C. Watts, Jr.
(1957 - ), US Congressman from Oklahoma (R), former quarterback in the Canadian Football League
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[Quote No.61259] Need Area: Friends > General
"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are." - Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790), statesman, author, and inventor.
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[Quote No.61260] Need Area: Friends > General
"Socialism [as in authoritative, paternal government where groups are more important than individuals, for example in fascism, communism and all other forms of statism] is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy." - Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, as quoted in 1948.
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[Quote No.61290] Need Area: Friends > General
"...if the citizens neglect their Duty [in a democracy to educate themselves about the options and vote wisely] and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded. If [our] government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine Commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the Laws." - Noah Webster
(1758-1843) American patriot and scholar, author of the first dictionary of American English usage (1806) and the author of the 1828 edition of the dictionary that bears his name.
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[Quote No.61293] Need Area: Friends > General
"The creed of libertarianism is the non-aggression axiom: everyone should be free from aggression against his person and property as long as he respects the person and property of others. As long as people don't infringe upon the rights of others by committing, or threatening to commit, acts of fraud, theft, aggression, or violence against their person or property, the government should just leave them alone." - Laurence M. Vance
'Of Course I'm a Libertarian', January 2017.
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[Quote No.61296] Need Area: Friends > General
"I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. ...creating illusions, sound bites... [where style is more important than substance and selling is more important than service.]" - Sydney Pollack
(1934 - 2008), American film director, producer and actor.
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[Quote No.61306] Need Area: Friends > General
"The less government interferes with [honest, consenting, voluntary, peaceful] private pursuits, the better for general prosperity." - Martin Van Buren
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[Quote No.61310] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato
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[Quote No.61314] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] Most of us think about succeeding in terms of someone else failing -- that is, if I win, you lose; or if you win, I lose. Life becomes a zero-sum game.
... [In contrast,] Win-win sees life as a cooperative arena, not a competitive one. Win-win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit in all human interactions. Win-win means agreements or solutions are mutually beneficial and satisfying.
" - Stephen R. Covey
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[Quote No.61336] Need Area: Friends > General
"{Morality and ethics; reciprocity and the Golden Rule of treating others as you'd like to be treated in the same situation:] I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion." - Ellen DeGeneres
(1958 - ), comedian
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[Quote No.61358] Need Area: Friends > General
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." - Elizabeth Bibesco
(1897-1945), Writer
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[Quote No.61377] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts:] What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world." - Robert E. Lee
Letter to his wife, December 25, 1862.
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[Quote No.61392] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics; reciprocity, the Golden Rule of treating others as you'd like to be treated, and empathy:] Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless." - Eric Hoffer
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[Quote No.61398] Need Area: Friends > General
"Instead of being a protector of man's rights, the government is becoming their most dangerous violator; instead of guarding freedom, the government is establishing slavery; instead of protecting men from the initiators of physical force, the government is initiating physical force and coercion in any manner and issue it pleases; instead of serving as the instrument of objectivity in human relationships, the government is creating a deadly, subterranean reign of uncertainty and fear, by means of non-objective laws whose interpretation is left to the arbitrary decisions of random bureaucrats; instead of protecting men from injury by whim, the government is arrogating to itself the power of unlimited whim - so that we are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. ...A free society - like any other human product - cannot be achieved by random means, by mere wishing or by the leaders' 'good intentions.' A complex legal system, based on objectively valid principles, is required to make a society free and to keep it free - a system that does not depend on the motives, the moral character or the intentions of any given official, a system that leaves no opportunity, no legal loophole for the development of tyranny. The American system of checks and balances was just such an achievement. And although certain contradictions in the Constitution did leave a loophole for the growth of statism, the incomparable achievement was the concept of a constitution [including a bill of rights] as a means of limiting and restricting the power of the government. Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals - that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government - that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizens' protection against the government." - Ayn Rand
In her essay on 'The Nature of Government'.
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[Quote No.61425] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing." - Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
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[Quote No.61470] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics; reciprocity and the question of 'revenge':] The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you." - John E. Southard
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[Quote No.61477] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics; reciprocity, empathy and the 'Golden Rule' of treating others as you'd like to be treated:] True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others." - Andre Gide
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[Quote No.61489] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics; the 'Golden Rule' of treating others as you'd like to be treated:-] It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
" - Aristotle
(384 BC - 322 BC) Greek Philosopher
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[Quote No.61490] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Protect and support human rights for each and all:] In Germany they came first for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Reverend Martin Niemoller
1945
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[Quote No.61526] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics; the unalienable equal birth-right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and property: 'live and let live'] Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others [by force or fraud]." - John F. Kennedy
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[Quote No.61530] Need Area: Friends > General
"[People who demand 'equality' need to understand that this in all its meanings is impossible and therefore they must decide what kind of equality they actually want and then if this is justice for all stakeholders involved:] From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law [equal treatment] and material equality [equal result] are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time." - Friedrich August von Hayek
(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974.
Source: 'The Constitution Of Liberty'.
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[Quote No.61547] Need Area: Friends > General
"Power can rarely be wielded effectively over long periods of time unless it is perceived by the community in which it is exercised as a form of legitimate authority, not as mere coercive force." - Brian Tierney
Source: 'Religion, Law, and the Growth of Constitutional Thought 1150-1650', (1982), p. x.
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[Quote No.61551] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics; reciprocity and the 'Golden Rule' of treating others as you'd like to be treated:] If you treat others kindly, a few will respond with unkindness,
or even take advantage of your kindness, but most will respond with kindness and friendliness. However, if you treat others unkindly, you can be quite certain that they will respond with harsh thoughts and actions. ... Whatever you do, do with kindness. Whatever you say, say with kindness. Wherever you go, radiate kindness." - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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[Quote No.61559] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion." - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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[Quote No.61560] Need Area: Friends > General
"In Republics [democracies], the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority." - James Madison
American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fourth President of the United States from 1809 to 1817.
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[Quote No.61572] Need Area: Friends > General
"The cry of the poor [or middle class or rich] is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is." - Howard Zinn
Historian
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[Quote No.61573] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live [individually] now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." - Howard Zinn
Historian
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[Quote No.61600] Need Area: Friends > General
"Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
" - William Beveridge
(1879-1963), economist and social reformer.
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[Quote No.61605] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Conscientious objector to wars of aggression, rather than self-defense:] Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war." - Albert Einstein
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[Quote No.61607] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics:] The ultimate test of a religion [or philosophy] is how it regards and treats non-believers." - Ashleigh Brilliant
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[Quote No.61667] Need Area: Friends > General
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness [service to their needs and desires]!" - Seneca
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[Quote No.61668] Need Area: Friends > General
"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention." - Oscar Wilde
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[Quote No.61669] Need Area: Friends > General
"Kindness is better than piety." - Yiddish Proverb
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[Quote No.61672] Need Area: Friends > General
"If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather than dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities!!" - Robert Conklin
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[Quote No.61690] Need Area: Friends > General
"To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." - Nelson Mandela
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[Quote No.61691] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics; reciprocity and the 'Golden Rule' of treating others as you'd like to be treated:] Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble
and beautiful end of a human being." - Khalil Gibran
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[Quote No.61713] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Societal and individual freedom:-] ... a sane society is that which corresponds to the needs of man ... It is our first task then, to ascertain what is the nature of man, and what are the needs which stem from this nature. [Refer Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Then setting desires and goals from this understanding of our species specific needs and then individually expressed desires gives each human the best chance to contribute productively to society and to be satisfied, happy and grateful individually.]" - Erich Fromm
(1900–1980), German humanistic philosopher and psychologist. Quote from his 1955 book, 'The Sane Society'.
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[Quote No.61714] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts: conflict and war:] The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." - G.K. Chesterton
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[Quote No.61719] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts: use force and violence very rarely and judiciously because...] Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another." - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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[Quote No.61777] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Democracy - where individuals vote and the majority decides so long as each individual's human rights are not violated - is most likely to produce the best result with an 'educated' voter:] Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends." - Benjamin Disraeli
(1804-1881) Prime Minister of England, British statesman, novelist.
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[Quote No.61778] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Democracy - where individuals vote and the majority decides so long as each individual's human rights are not violated - is most likely to produce the best result with an 'educated' voter:] A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." - James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President. Source: letter to W. T. Barry, August 4, 1822, Ref: 'Letters and other Writings of James Madison', vol. 3 (276).
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[Quote No.61779] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Democracy - where individuals vote and the majority decides so long as each individual's human rights are not violated - is most likely to produce the best result with an 'educated' voter:] Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained." - James A. Garfield
(1831-1881) 20th President of the United States (1881). July 12, 1880.
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