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“To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.”

Lying Black Gains Punishment Cowardice

Book:Children are people: how to understand and guide your children

Source: Children are people: how to understand and guide your children

“It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?”

Thinking Action Realizing Consequence Gains Ultimate Punishment Too Late Irrevocable

Book:Beautiful Lies

Source: Beautiful Lies

“I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.”

Gains India Punishment Refrain

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“I don't doubt that every prince would like to be both; but since it is hard to accomodate these qualities, if you have to make a choice, to be feared is much safer than to be loved. For it is a good general rule about men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, fearful of danger and greedy for gain....[love] is a link of obligation which men, because they are rotten, will break anything they think doing so serves their advantage; but fear involves dread of punishment, from which they can never escape.”

Ifs Thinking Men Hard Choices Love Is Quality Break Doubt Danger Gains Advantage Punishment Obligation Liars Links Fearful Dread Greedy Rotten Ungrateful Fickle Deceiver

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing.”

“Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.”

Trying Mean Stills Reason Moving Sky Morality Gains Cameras Rewards Be Good Punishment Shoulders Apples Approval Really Mean Surveillance Disapproval Monitoring Surveillance Cameras

Author:Richard Dawkins