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W E B DuBois : There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for. # Life and Living # Love # Argument

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Georges Bataille : " The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. " # Life and Living # Love # Argument

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Robert Coles : " I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach these young people morally, and what do we bring to them. " # Life and Living # Love # Argument

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Marquis De Sade : " Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world. " # Life and Living # Love # Argument

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Henry David Thoreau : " Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something. " # Life and Living # Love # Argument

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Henry David Thoreau : " Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. " # Life and Living # Love # Argument

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Henry David Thoreau : " Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. " # Life and Living # Love # Argument

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Henry David Thoreau : " Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. " # Life and Living # Love # Argument

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William Wordsworth : " One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. " # Life and Living # Love # Argument

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Ayn Rand : " All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. " # Life and Living # Love # Argument

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Albert Einstein : " The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. " # Life and Living # Love # Argument

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W E B DuBois: " Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life." # Family # Progress # Belief

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W E B DuBois: " It was a bright September afternoon, and the streets of New York were brilliant with moving men.... He was pushed toward the ticket-office with the others, and felt in his pocket for the new five-dollar bill he had hoarded.... When at last he realized that he had paid five dollars to enter he knew not what, he stood stock-still amazed.... John... sat in a half-maze minding the scene about him; the delicate beauty of the hall, the faint perfume, the moving myriad of men, the rich clothing and low hum of talking seemed all a part of a world so different from his, so strangely more beautiful than anything he had known, that he sat in dreamland, and started when, after a hush, rose high and clear the music of Lohengrin's swan. The infinite beauty of the wail lingered and swept through every muscle of his frame, and put it all a-tune. He closed his eyes and grasped the elbows of the chair, touching unwittingly the lady's arm. And the lady drew away. A deep longing swelled in all his heart to rise with that clear music out of the dirt and dust of that low life that held him prisoned and befouled. If he could only live up in the free air where birds sang and setting suns had no touch of blood! Who had called him to be the slave and butt of all?... If he but had some master-work, some life-service, hard, aye, bitter hard, but without the cringing and sickening servility.... When at last a soft sorrow crept across the violins, there came to him the vision of a far-off home — the great eyes of his sister, and the dark drawn face of his mother.... It left John sitting so silent and rapt that he did not for some time notice the usher tapping him lightly on the shoulder and saying politely, 'will you step this way please sir?'... The manager was sorry, very very sorry — but he explained that some mistake had been made in selling the gentleman a seat already disposed of; he would refund the money, of course... before he had finished John was gone, walking hurriedly across the square... and as he passed the park he buttoned his coat and said, 'John Jones you're a natural-born fool.' Then he went to his lodgings and wrote a letter, and tore it up; he wrote another, and threw it in the fire...." # Life and Living # Love # Money

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W E B DuBois: " I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of the evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil. Is this the life you grudge us, O knightly America? Is this the life you long to change into the dull red hideousness of Georgia? Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land?" # Human Fellowship # America # Love

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W E B DuBois: " Present-day students are often puzzled at the apparent contradictions of Southern slavery. One hears, on the one hand, of the staid and gentle patriarchy, the wide and sleepy plantations with lord and retainers, ease and happiness; on the other hand one hears of barbarous cruelty and unbridled power and wide oppression of men. Which is the true picture? The answer is simple: both are true. They are not opposite sides of the same shield; they are different shields." # Mothers # Happiness # Truth

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W E B DuBois: " There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for." # Life and Living # Love # Argument

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W E B DuBois: " There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know." # Coward and Cowardice # Risk # Courage

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W E B DuBois: " I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men." # Education

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W E B DuBois: " The Soviet Union does not allow any church of any kind to interfere with education, and religion is not taught in public schools. It seems to me that this is the greatest gift of the Russian Revolution to the modern world. Most educated modern men no longer believe in religious dogma. If questioned they will usually resort to double-talk before admitting the fact. But who today actually believes that this world is ruled and directed by a benevolent person of great power who, on humble appeal, will change the course of events at our request? Who believes in miracles? Many folk follow religious ceremonies and services and allow their children to learn fairy tales and so-called religious truth, which in time the children come to recognize as conventional lies told by their parents and teachers for the children's good. One can hardly exaggerate the moral disaster of the custom. We have to thank the Soviet Union for the courage to stop it." # Education # Life and Living # Revolutions and Revolutionaries

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W E B DuBois: " And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough oneness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature needs must make men narrow in order to give them force." # Age and Aging # Vision # Success

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W E B DuBois: " The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization." # Teachers and Teaching # Books - Reading # Politicians and Politics

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