You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
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