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G. J. Warnock: “That it is a bad thing to be tortured and starved, humiliated or hurt, is not an opinion; it is a fact. That it is better for people to be loved and attended to, rather than hated or neglected, is again a plain fact, not a matter of opinion.”

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Bertrand Russell: “The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.”

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Pema Chodron: “We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.”

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Sam Harris: “What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?”

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Beatrix Potter: “All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”

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Oscar Wilde: “I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”

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Philip Toynbee: “I cannot conceive of a good life which isn't, in some sense, a self-disciplined life.”

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Margaret Mead: “It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.”

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Albert Einstein: “If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”

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Bishop Desmond Tutu: “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

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Madame de Stael: “Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.”

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Julia Ward Howe: “I never could be good when I was not happy.”

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Vincent van Gogh: “A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. ”

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Kurt Vonnegut: “I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishment after I'm dead.”

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Rumi: “Let the beauty we love become the good we do.”

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Eric Hoffer: “Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.”

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Thomas Paine: “ I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.”

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Bishop Desmond Tutu: “To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that 'summum bonum,' the greatest good.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary, the evil it does is permanent.”

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Daniel Goleman: “The argument has long been made that we humans are by nature compassionate and empathic despite the occasional streak of meanness, but torrents of bad news throughout history have contradicted that claim, and little sound science has backed it. But try this thought experiment. Imagine the number of opportunities people around the world today might have to commit an antisocial act, from rape or murder to simple rudeness and dishonesty. Make that number the bottom of a fraction. Now for the top value you put the number of such antisocial acts that will actually occur today.

That ratio of potential to enacted meanness holds at close to zero any day of the year. And if for the top value you put the number of benevolent acts performed in a given day, the ratio of kindness to cruelty will always be positive. (The news, however, comes to us as though that ratio was reversed.)

Harvard's Jerome Kagan proposes this mental exercise to make a simple point about human nature: the sum total of goodness vastly outweighs that of meanness. ‘Although humans inherit a biological bias that permits them to feel anger, jealousy, selfishness and envy, and to be rude, aggressive or violent,’ Kagan notes, ‘they inherit an even stronger biological bias for kindness, compassion, cooperation, love and nurture -- especially toward those in need.’ This inbuilt ethical sense, he adds, ‘is a biological feature of our species.’”

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Gail Hamilton: “Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.”

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Marcus Aurelius: “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.”

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Voltaire: “Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.”

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A. Eustace Haydon : “Religion is a pilgrimage through ages of hard experience in quest of the good society.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”

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Baruch Spinoza: “Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.”

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Mother Teresa: “Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.”

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