"One man's justice is another's injustice; one..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.
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“An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.”
“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.”
“The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.”
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“This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.”
“Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.”
“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”