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[Quote No.17402] Need Area: Friends > General
"Three ideas stand out above all others in the influence they have exerted and are destined to exert upon the development of the human race; the idea of The Golden Rule, the idea of natural law, and the idea of age - long growth, or evolution." - Robert Andrews Millikan
(1868–1953), American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923.
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[Quote No.17456] Need Area: Friends > General
"There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever in which the most ignorant were not the most violent..." - Alexander Pope
(1688 - 1744) English poet
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[Quote No.17536] Need Area: Friends > General
"Treat all men alike. Give them all the same laws. Give them all an even chance to live and grow." - Chief Joseph
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[Quote No.17537] Need Area: Friends > General
"Before I judge my neighbor, let me walk a mile in his moccasins." - Sioux Proverb
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[Quote No.17539] Need Area: Friends > General
"...when the sovereign power for the sake of preserving peace punishes a citizen who has injured another, it should not be said to be indignant with the criminal, for it is not incited by hatred to ruin him; it is led by a sense of duty to punish him.[as an example and deterrent to others and as justice to the victims.]" - Benedict Spinoza
(1632 - 77) Dutch - Jewish philosopher
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[Quote No.17540] Need Area: Friends > General
"Indignation is hatred toward one who has done evil to another." - Benedict Spinoza
(1632 - 1677) Dutch - Jewish philosopher
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[Quote No.17541] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism:] The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise [for their own good and the good of others and society in general]." - Robert Frost
(1874 - 1963) American poet
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[Quote No.17543] Need Area: Friends > General
"The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it." - John Stuart Mill
(1806 - 1873) English economist
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[Quote No.17544] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individuality and individualism:] At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time." - Friedrich W. Nietzsche
(1844 - 1900) German philosopher
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[Quote No.17545] Need Area: Friends > General
"Individuality is everywhere to be spared and respected as the root of everything good." - Jean Paul Richter
(1763 - 1826) German humorist
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[Quote No.17546] Need Area: Friends > General
"We may sum up much that is significant about inner-direction by saying that, in a society where it is dominant, its tendency is to protect the individual against the others at the price of leaving him vulnerable to himself. Within himself he must find justification not only in what he does but in what he is." - David Riesman
(1909 - ) American sociologist, educator
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[Quote No.17589] Need Area: Friends > General
"Infidelity grows strong under oppressive civil rule; weak under that which is just." - Theodore Christlieb
(1833 - 1889) German theologian
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[Quote No.17592] Need Area: Friends > General
"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and pure and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness." - Phillips Brooks
(1835 - 1893) American Episcopalian bishop
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[Quote No.17593] Need Area: Friends > General
"A good man does good merely by living." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
(1803 - 1873) English novelist
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[Quote No.17597] Need Area: Friends > General
"Virtue will catch, as well as vice, by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate." - Edmund Burke
(1729 - 1797) English orator and statesman
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[Quote No.17598] Need Area: Friends > General
"Simply to be in this world, whatever you are is to exert an influence too, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble." - Horace Bushnell
(1802 - 1876) American clergy
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[Quote No.17600] Need Area: Friends > General
"Others are affected by what I am and say and do. And these others have also these spheres of influence. So that a single act of mine may spread in widening circles through a nation of humanity." - William Ellery Channing
(1780 - 1842) American Unitarian clergy
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[Quote No.17601] Need Area: Friends > General
"...you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness." - Cyrus The Great
(b. about 600 B.C.; d. in 529 B.C.) Founder of the Persian Empire;
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[Quote No.17602] Need Area: Friends > General
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another." - George Eliot
(pen-name of Mary Ann Evans) (1819 - 1880), English novelist
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[Quote No.17603] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every thought, which genius and piety throw into the world, alters the world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882) American essayist, poet and philosopher
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[Quote No.17606] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics: equality, mirror-behavior, reciprocity, 'Golden Rule' behavior where you treat others as you would like to be treated:] Always so act that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings." - Immanuel Kant
(1724 - 1804) German philosopher
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[Quote No.17607] Need Area: Friends > General
"Influence never dies; every act, emotion, look and word makes influence tell for good or evil, happiness or woe, through the long future of eternity." - Thomas a Kempis
(1380 - 1471) German scholar and ecclesiastic
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[Quote No.17608] Need Area: Friends > General
"The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air." - Thomas Starr King
(1824 - 1864) American Unitarian divine
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[Quote No.17609] Need Area: Friends > General
"When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807 - 1882) American poet
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[Quote No.17610] Need Area: Friends > General
"The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation. The world is molded by it." - Macleod
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[Quote No.17611] Need Area: Friends > General
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousands fibers connect us with our fellowmen..." - Herman Melville
(1819 - 1891)
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[Quote No.17615] Need Area: Friends > General
"The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race." - Samuel Smiles
(1812 - 1904) English biographer
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[Quote No.17622] Need Area: Friends > General
"Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity [what is fair], is the most insupportable." - Sir Roger L'Estrange
(1616 - 1704) English journalist
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[Quote No.17623] Need Area: Friends > General
"Men endure the looses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice." - Sir Walter Raleigh
(1552 - 1618) English courtier and navigator
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[Quote No.17624] Need Area: Friends > General
"They that know no evil will suspect none. [...and trust all...to their regret and education.]" - Ben Jonson
(1573 - 1637) English dramatist
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[Quote No.17625] Need Area: Friends > General
"...to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations." - William Penn
(1644 - 1718) English Quaker and American colonist, founder of Pennsylvania
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[Quote No.17626] Need Area: Friends > General
"The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. [Trust is no protection, rather an invitation to evil and fraud.]" - Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806 - 1867) American poet and journalist
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[Quote No.17634] Need Area: Friends > General
"Who can all sense of others' ills escape,
Is but a brute, at best, in human shape." - Juvenal
(60 - 140) Roman satirical poet
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[Quote No.17642] Need Area: Friends > General
"In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress." - Booker T. Washington
(1859 - 1915) American Negro educator
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[Quote No.17650] Need Area: Friends > General
"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it." - George Eliot
(pen-name of Mary Ann Evans),(1819 - 1880), English novelist
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[Quote No.17651] Need Area: Friends > General
"He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it is goodness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882) American essayist, poet and philosopher
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[Quote No.17653] Need Area: Friends > General
"In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence...when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other reward." - William Paley
(1743 - 1805) English liberal theologian
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[Quote No.17654] Need Area: Friends > General
"Give us the man of integrity, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend; who will stand firm when others fail..." - J. P. Stanley
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[Quote No.17698] Need Area: Friends > General
"...a society without ideas has no history." - Max I. Dimont
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[Quote No.17699] Need Area: Friends > General
"The character of a people, like the character of a person, should not be measured by its worst, but rather by its best..." - David H. Greer
(1844 - 1919) Episcopalian bishop of New York
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[Quote No.17709] Need Area: Friends > General
"The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it." - Bishop Beilby Porteus
(1731 - 1808) English prelate
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[Quote No.17713] Need Area: Friends > General
"Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice, but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death!" - Thomas Carlyle
(1795 - 1881) English essayist, historian, biographer and philosopher
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[Quote No.17714] Need Area: Friends > General
"Here is the beginning of philosophy: recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, and a condemnation of mere opinion and the discovery of a standard of judgment." - Epictetus
(60 - 120) Roman stoic philosopher
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[Quote No.17720] Need Area: Friends > General
"The law is made to protect the innocent by punishing the guilty." - Daniel Webster
(1782 - 1852) American orator and statesman
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[Quote No.17721] Need Area: Friends > General
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." - Robert Frost
(1874 - 1963) American poet
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[Quote No.17722] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every human being has a responsibility for injustice anywhere in the community." - Scott Buchanan
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[Quote No.17723] Need Area: Friends > General
"Justice, though due to the accused, is due to the accuser too" - Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo
(1870-1938),Associate justice U. S. Supreme court
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[Quote No.17724] Need Area: Friends > General
"Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it." - Francois Rene Chateaubriand
(1768-1848) French author and statesman
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[Quote No.17725] Need Area: Friends > General
"Justice advances with such languid steps that crime often escapes from its slowness. Its tardy and doubtful course causes many tears to be shed." - Pierre Corneille
(1606 - 1684) French dramatist and poet
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[Quote No.17726] Need Area: Friends > General
"Justice delayed, is justice denied." - William Gladstone
(1809 - 1898), British politician
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