Samuel Pisar quotes

“The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.”
-- Samuel Pisar

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“Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.”
-- Samuel Pisar

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“We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.”
-- Samuel Pisar

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“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”

“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”

“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”

“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”

“While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Meaning of Life"), 1990.

“Money has no moral opinions.”

Source : "Fictional character: Joe Morse". "Force of Evil", 1948.

“I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.”

“We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 61), 1937.

“We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.”

“Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.”