With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

It is safest to be moderately base -- to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Sydney Smith

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

Richard Savage

Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?

Emmanuelle Beart

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

George Saunders

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

Robert Casey

Seek and you will find.

Bible

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Lucretius

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them

Aldous Huxley

I have a thing for evil bald bad guys. The Kurgan is too sexy.

Ernest Cline

We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.

Albert Camus

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

John C. Ransom

Kipling sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilised, are there to guard and feed them.

George Orwell, essay, 1942