"To do a great right do a..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
To do a great right do a little wrong.
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“Educated men are so impressive.”
“And in the morn and liquid dew of youth,Contagious blastments are are most imminent.”
“If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'”
More on Morality
“The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.”
“A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.”
“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
More on Ethics
“A man of truth must also be a man of care.”
“Man has got to take charge of Man.... Then real education, including pre-natal education. By real education I mean one that has no 'take-it-or-leave-it' nonsense. A real education makes the patient what it wants infallibly: whatever he or his parents try to do about it. Of course, it'll have to be mainly psychological at first. But we'll get on to biochemical conditioning int he end and direct manipulation of the brain.”
“The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.”