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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
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I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.
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That's a fine line that's a big deal.
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Personal Communication
Contribution #4045
Good judgment comes from experience,
And a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
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All mass movements rank obedience with the highest of virtues and put it on a level with faith: 'union of minds requires not only a perfect accord in the one Faith, but complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and the Roman Pontiff as to God Himself'. [Leo XIII, Sepientiae Christianae. According to Luther, "Disobedience is a greater sin than murder, unchastity, theft and dishonest.." Quoted by Jerome Frank, Fate and Freedom (New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1945), p. 281] Obedience is not only the first law of God, but also the first tenet of a revolutionary party and of fervent nationalism.
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The True Believer
Page 108
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Contribution #3977
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.
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The True believer
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Contribution #3974
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone other than an authority figure.
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The National Catholic Reporter
Divided loyalties: an incredible situation
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Contribution #3904
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
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Depend upon yourself. Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.
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We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgment, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
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Parenting: Affection without sentiment, authority without cruelty, discipline without aggression, humor without ridicule, sacrifice without obligation, companionship without possessiveness.
It is widely recognied in the academy that we don't need to be first causes or uncaused causers to be held responsible and have standards of right and wrong. Holding each other responsible is one important way we are caused to ehave responsibly and ethically.
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Free Inquiry
Page 17
Freedom from Free Will
Volume: Volume 30, No. 1
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Contribution #3629
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened.
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Black sheep are still sheep.
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I gravitate toward gravitas.
All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested.
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Set before thine eyes God's unerring Balance and, as one standing in His Presence, weigh in that Balance thine actions every day, every moment of thy life.
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Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah
p. 236
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Contribution #2680
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
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He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
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Sermon - October 15, 1826
Contribution #2388
At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions--that is to say, rather than judgments--and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.
Don't believe everything you think.
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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
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Thomas J. Watson
http://www.entplaza.com
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Contribution #2033
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.
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Ideas often have results that are the opposite of those their authors anticipated as consequences are rarely those expected or hoped for by the original thinkers. . . . Yet the cure of bad or misapplied ideas is not the refutation of ideas and thinkers but better and corrected ideas.
To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
Receptivity and sensitiveness are what makes one’s behaviour endearing and enriching. Do not try to thrust your likes and dislikes on others. Try instead, to find out what those around would expect from you and where you can possibly contribute. Rather than feeling conflict or confrontation every time, look for and generate greater notes of harmony.
All things…call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to
listen, they want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of
being…. But we can give it to them only through the love that
listens.
Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.
We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.
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Ian Percy
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Contribution #649
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Action for Animals pamphlet
Contribution #537
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
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Bible
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Contribution #471
What does judgment look like in a person?
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