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- Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.
- Stuart Seaton
- It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.
- Thomas Elliot
- With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
- William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879)
- From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.
- Charles Sumner (1811 - 1874)
- In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nicomachean Ethics (4th c. BC)
- Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
- Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)
- Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.
- Max Nordau (1849 - 1923)
- The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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