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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
Paddy Ashdown
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
Fanny Kemble
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
E. O. Wilson
Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy.
Michael Moriarty
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Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.


Alan Watts
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.


Abraham Lincoln
And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
Will Wright
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Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.
Robert Dallek
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Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
Lester B. Pearson
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Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.
Kylie Minogue
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I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.
Richard Lugar
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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
Steve Earle
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I do not believe in hypocrisy.


Vijay Mallya
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.


Ambrose Bierce
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There is so much hypocrisy in sports.


Dennis Rodman
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.


Honore de Balzac
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Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.


Grover Norquist
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In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.
Paul Tsongas
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It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.
Louis Finkelstein
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