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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.

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To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom ...more

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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the wh...more

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Our purpose is to find out whether innocence, the moment it becomes involved in an action, can avoid committing murder.

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But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a w...more

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If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: "I recognize only...more

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We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.

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There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no ne...more

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From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.

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Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of all revolutions. Without it, justice seems inconce...more

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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

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I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.