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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls o...more

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One last point. Remember that, as I said, the right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge. When a man is getting better he understands mo...more

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The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, ...more

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If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons...more

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The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.

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My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line c...more

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It is as well to put this the other way round. Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and good...more

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Badness is only spoiled goodness.

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When I was a youngster, all the progressive people were saying, “Why all this prudery? Let us treat sex just as we treat all our other impulses.” I wa...more

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It is part of the nature of a strong erotic passion—as distinct from a transient fit of appetite—that makes more towering promises than any other emot...more

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The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian tea...more

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When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.

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When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "...more