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“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”
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“Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.”
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“Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.”
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“Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.”
Source : Adam Michnik (1998). “Letters from Freedom: Post–Cold War Realities and Perspectives”, p.27, Univ of California Press
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“The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.”
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“I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.”
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“My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics”
Source : Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”
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“No moral system can rest solely on authority.”
Source : Humanist Outlook (1968) introduction
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“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.
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“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.
