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“The highest levels of the U.S. military, the Defense Department, and the White House must be held accountable for putting our troops at greater risk and diminishing Americas moral authority across the globe.”

House White Levels Moral Greater Risk Military Authority Highest Defense Department White House Troops Globes Our Troops Moral Authority

Author:Lawrence Korb

“Difference which exists between the lowest, so-called men, and the other higher races is greater than between the lowest men and the highest apes.”

Men Differences Race Greater Higher Highest Lowest Apes

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.”

States Government Political Community Greater Degrees Highest Aim Embrace

Book:Constitution of Athens and Related Texts

Source: Constitution of Athens and Related Texts

“Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.”

Ifs Thinking Kind States Political Order Politics Community Views Greater Society Degrees Highest Aim Embrace Association

Author:Aristotle

“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.”

People Two Greater Sacrifice Highest Ideals Unions Profound Devotion Gay Marriage Fidelity Love And Marriage Marriage Love Marriage Equality Court Decision Support Gay Marriage

Author:Anthony Kennedy

“The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and operating to the highest result--not to create originally, which is great; but to create anew, which is greater.”

Results Moral Greater Highest Evidence Sinner Spheres Regeneration Prerogative

Author:William Arthur Ward

“In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city.”

Cities Greater Thousand Members Highest Species Killing Rate Homicide American Cities

Author:Daniel Dennett

“My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old.”

Writing Years Book Greater Son Highest Daughter Adults Come Up Manage Curious Compliment Satisfying

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.”

Giving States Political Wish Greater Authority Highest Police Instruments Criminals Officials Discretion Non Political

Book:Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews

Source: Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews

“We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!”

Levels Greater Highest Mercy

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.”

Ifs Helping Leader Greater Highest Acknowledge Prime Imperatives God Help Greater Good God Help Us

Author:Leonard Pitts

“There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.”

Humans Heart Quality Compassion Courage Greater Highest Accidents Disaster Treasure Tragic Human Qualities Tragic Accidents

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the rich would have disastrous effects, not just for the rich but for the poor and middle classes themselves. For it is the rich who provide a proportionately greater amount of saving, investment capital, entrepreneurial foresight, and financing of technological innovation that has brought the Unites States to by far the highest standard of living - for the mass of the people - of any country in history.”