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“The difference between vengeance and justice is that vengeance is about your feelings. Justice is about making the world better for people who don’t even know you.”

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“I don’t understand,’ said the boy. ‘I thought aesthetic decisions could be completely immoral. What about the cliché of the artist who leaves his wife and children so he can paint? Or Nero playing the harp while Rome burned?’ ‘Both were moral decisions. Both served a higher good, in the mind of the artist. The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality. But often this isn’t understood; and here comes the waste, the tragedy. An artist, stealing paints from a store, for example, imagines himself to have made an inevitable but immoral decision, and then he sees himself as fallen from grace; what follows is despair and petty irresponsibility, as if morality were a great glass world which can be utterly shattered by one act. But this was not my great concern then. I did not know these things then. I believed I killed animals for aesthetic reasons only, and I hedged against the great moral question of whether or not by my very nature I was damned.”

Artist Morals Interview With The Vampire

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Source: Interview with the Vampire

“For those who set out to clean the dirt of the world, the best broom is their own clean morals, because you can't clean the dirt with dirt!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Material means that hide man's meanness fail to reflect his moral richness.”

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Author:B.S. Murthy

“Don't be so ignorant as to think that what we're exercising is freedom if we've bled it of morals, purged it of wisdom, declared it to be our right, and bent it to serve our agendas. This is not the exercise of freedom. Rather, this is the birth of anarchy.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We are somehow led to believe that the justification of what we’re ‘sowing’ has the power to change the nature of what we’re sowing. Subsequently, we find ourselves shocked that the justifications didn’t change the nature of what we ‘reaped.”

Values Ethics Morals Justification Excuses Reap Rationalization Blaming Sow

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The times that I have been most vehemently criticized were those times when I had worked to keep people from walking off a cliff that they could not see because they believed that I held a prejudice I did not have.”

Wisdom Values Principles Ethics Criticism Prejudice Foolish Morals Discernment Cliff

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Silent Messages 4 Nobody wants to change the world… Everyone wants to ensure Receiving just one more paycheck Just one more… [Original poem published in Arabic on May 16, 2023 at ahewar.org]” ― Louis Yako”

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Author:Louis Yako

“This life is filled with inescapable moral compromises. We should do what we can to avoid the easy ones.”

Life Complicated Morals

Book:Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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