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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Imitations of Horace (1733–1738), Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I, line 136.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.
Alexander Pope1688–1744An Essay on Man (1734)In context
- Faith
All nature is but art unknown to thee;
All chance direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord harmony not understood;
All partial evil universal good;
And, spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite,
One truth is clear, ‘Whatever is, is right.
Alexander Pope1688–1744An Essay on Man (1733–1734), Epistle IIn context
- Good & Evil
- Philosophy
I believe that there is, from the ethical point of view, no symmetry between suffering and happiness, or between pain and pleasure.
Karl Popper1902–1994The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), Vol. 1, Notes to the Chapters: Ch. 9, Note 2.
- Happiness
Nazism and Fascism are thoroughly beaten, but I must admit that their defeat does not mean that barbarism and brutality have been defeated.
Karl Popper1902–1994Utopia and Violence (1947)
- Good & Evil
- War & Peace
First, I would like to tell you that I came to carry out the struggle, not to kill people. Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.
PPPol Pot1925–1998Nate Thayer interview (1997)
As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
- Happiness
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking…the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.
Ayn Rand1905–1982
- Faith
- Truth & Lies
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.
Ayn Rand1905–1982The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
- Knowledge
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
Ayn Rand1905–1982Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
- Good & Evil
I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Dedication of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (1991)
- Good & Evil
I urge you to beware the temptation of pride⁠—the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004The Evil Empire (1983)
- Good & Evil
- War & Peace
Let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the Earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004The Evil Empire (1983)
- Good & Evil
- Government
Live so that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers1879–1935
- Virtue