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Toleration is the best religion.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens our soul.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), Volume I: Fantine, Book First: A Just Man, Chapter VIIIn context
- Fear
- Good & Evil
The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert Humphrey1911–1978Remarks at the dedication of the Hubert H. Humphrey Building, November 1, 1977, Congressional Record, November 4, 1977, vol 123, p. 37287.
- Government
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963“Words and Behaviour”, The Olive Tree (1936)
- Politics
Reputation is character minus what you’ve been caught doing.
MIMichael Iapoce
Neither moral conceptions nor art-forms have an eternity before them. How much are we really in duty bound to pin our faith to? Who will guarantee me that on Jupiter two and two do not make five?
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906Letter to Georg Brandes (17 February 1871), as translated in Henrik Ibsen: Björnstjerne Björnson. Critical Studies (1899) by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Isaiah766–686 BCThe Book of Isaiah (c. 800–500 B.C.), 57:20-21, King James Version
- Good & Evil
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah766–686 BCIsaiah 5:20 (KJV)
- Good & Evil
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse Jackson1941–2026
- Justice
- Life & Death
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826
I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826
He who steadily observes the moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to William Canby (18 September 1813)
- Religion
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Wisdom
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Wisdom
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Virtue