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1. “In ieder geval zal het bij een juiste inrichting van der maatschappij geen enkel verschil maken of iemand dom of verstandig, slecht of goed is.”

Ivan Turgenev

Society, Equality, Structure, Morality, Wisdom

2. “I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But I do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.”

Ivan Turgenev

Goodness, Complexity, Morality, Human Nature, Inner Conflict

3. “To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.”

Ivan Turgenev

Selflessness, Holiness, Sympathy, Kindness, Morality

4. “The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature’s bare blade without shedding our own blood.”

Camille Paglia

Feminism, Mythology, Goddesses, Nature, Morality

5. “I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.”

Camille Paglia

Art, Morality, Philosophy, Creativity, Perception

6. “Tragic woman is less moral than man. Her will-to-power is naked. Her actions are under a chthonian cloud.”

Camille Paglia

Women, Morality, Power, Tragedy, Gender

7. “Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.”

Camille Paglia

Children, Nature, Psychology, Morality, Society

8. “Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government.”

J.P. Morgan

Taxes, Law, Evasion, Rights, Morality

9. “The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.”

J.P. Morgan

Morality, Integrity, Honesty, Ethics, Character

10. “The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.”

Andrew Carnegie

Morality, Ethics, Decision-Making, Perspective, Principles

11. “All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.”

Andrew Carnegie

Honor, Integrity, Responsibility, Consequences, Morality

12. “There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire’s money.”

Andrew Carnegie

Wealth, Morality, Power, Integrity, Society

13. “A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.”

Andrew Carnegie

Integrity, Business, Success, Leadership, Morality

14. “There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.”

Andrew Carnegie

Wealth, Morality, Values, Success, Life

15. “I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.”

Andrew Carnegie

Leadership, Morality, Strength, Success, Principles

16. “No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.”

Andrew Carnegie

Wealth, Success, Generosity, Morality, Leadership

17. “The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.”

Andrew Carnegie

Integrity, Strength, Morality, Principles, Leadership

18. “The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him.”

Andrew Carnegie

Wealth, Legacy, Success, Morality, Life

19. “The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.”

Andrew Carnegie

Wealth, Legacy, Morality, Success, Philanthropy

20. “Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.”

Charles Lamb

Love, Humanity, Morality, Redemption, Emotion

21. “’Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.”

Charles Lamb

Poverty, Charity, Morality, Dilemma, Society

22. “Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne’er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.”

Charles Lamb

Wit, Honor, Intelligence, Debate, Morality

23. “To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.”

Charles Lamb

Gratitude, Justice, Hypocrisy, Morality, Reflection

24. “There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.”

Charles Lamb

Irony, Religion, Morality, Wit, Humor

25. “While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.”

Margaret Fuller

Freedom, Nobility, Integrity, Society, Morality

26. “Accursed be he who willingly saddens an immortal spirit – doomed to infamy in later, wiser ages, doomed in future stages of his own being to deadly penance, only short of death.”

Margaret Fuller

Spirit, Suffering, Consequence, Wisdom, Morality

27. “Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she’s 6. While both criminal, they’re very different circumstances.”

Steven Wright

Law, Ethics, Justice, Morality, Perspective

28. “A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.”

Steven Wright

Morality, Guilt, Life, Ethics, Humor

29. “What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.”

Jimmy Carter

Guantanamo, Justice, Terrorism, America, Morality

30. “We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.”

Jimmy Carter

Oligarchy, Democracy, Morality, Ethics, Politics

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