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Tag Tag Moral responsibility
A Truth thats told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent.
William Blake Auguries of Innocence · 1803

Quotes

“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”

Ayn Rand · Atlas Shrugged, 1957 · Primary source

“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.”

Ayn Rand · The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, 1986 · Primary source

“It is better to take many injuries, than to give one.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. It you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?”

Ernest Hemingway · The Old Man and the Sea, 1952 · Primary source

“We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution.”

John F. Kennedy · Civil Rights Address, 1963 · Primary source

“A dog starv’d at his master’s gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.”

William Blake · Auguries of Innocence, 1803 · Primary source

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