 The Galaxy of Quotes
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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at him. The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach. Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience. In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. Integrity has no need of rules. Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. Racism negates two aspects of man’s life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination. To declare that "everybody is white" or "everybody is black" or "everybody is neither white nor black, but gray," is not a moral judgment, but an escape from the responsibility of moral judgment.
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