Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.
Ashly LorenzanaTag: life honesty deception morality lies identity self-awareness forced
There is nothing wrong with revenge. The wrong has already been done, or there would be no need to even the score.
Ashly LorenzanaThe flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side.
Terry PratchettTo make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)
Tag: science money truth honesty morality lies writing integrity values artists greed scholars academia honour treason gain selling-out falsification veracity
If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable.
Christopher HitchensTag: morality autonomy iraq iraq-war royalty kurdish-people al-khalifa-family bahrain kurdistan statehood
To act morally is not to act out of fear of punishment; it is not to act as one is commanded to act. Rather, it is to act as one ought to act. And how one ought to act is not dependent upon anyone's power, even if the power be Divine.
Steven M. CahnSuch impulses have displayed themselves very widely across left and liberal opinion in recent months. Why? For some, because what the US government and its allies do, whatever they do, has to be opposed—and opposed however thuggish and benighted the forces which this threatens to put your anti-war critic into close company with. For some, because of an uncontrollable animus towards George Bush and his administration. For some, because of a one-eyed perspective on international legality and its relation to issues of international justice and morality. Whatever the case or the combination, it has produced a calamitous compromise of the core values of socialism, or liberalism or both, on the part of thousands of people who claim attachment to them. You have to go back to the apologias for, and fellow-travelling with, the crimes of Stalinism to find as shameful a moral failure of liberal and left opinion as in the wrong-headed—and too often, in the circumstances, sickeningly smug—opposition to the freeing of the Iraqi people from one of the foulest regimes on the planet.
Norman GerasTag: morality justice liberalism united-states law george-w-bush iraq socialism iraq-war leftism international-law ba-ath-party ba-athism ba-athist-iraq saddam-hussein stalinism nato anti-americanism opposition-to-the-iraq-war anti-war-movement pro-war-left
Too often in the post-9/11 world, when the time has come to translate the moral, and essentially progressive, roots of foreign policy idealism into plans for American action, liberals have said, 'Duck.
Richard JustTag: politics morality foreign-policy united-states international-relations september-11-attacks progressivism anti-war-movement
Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
Cormac McCarthyTag: morality selfishness survival the-road cormac-mccarthy altruism
Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world.
Ann ClwydTag: morality law genocide iraq iraq-war international-law saddam-hussein al-anfal-campaign moral-responsibility kurdish-genocide responsibility-to-protect
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