You can’t defend the indefensible – anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you’re harboring them yourself.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one’s own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.
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