It is our choice of good or evil
that determines our character,
not our opinion about good or evil.
Aristotle
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma Gandhi
The thinking person must oppose all cruel
customs, no matter how deeply rooted
in tradition and surrounded by a halo.
When we have a choice, we must
avoid bringing torment and injury
into the life of another.
Albert Schweitzer
A great number of our decisions are not
really our own but are suggested to us from
the outside; we have succeeded in persuading
ourselves that it is we who made the decision,
whereas we have actually conformed with
expectations of others, driven by the fear
of isolation and by threats to our comfort.
Erich Fromm
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people
who never make up their minds
to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt
Asking vegans to respect your choice to eat meat
is on par with asking feminists to respect sexists,
asking people of color to respect racists and
asking homosexuals to respect homophobes.
It is ludicrous to think that difference in opinion
warrants mutual respect, when the opposing
opinion in question appropriates suffering,
defends oppression and encourages
the continuance of exploitation.
Felix Sampson
Human beings are not machines,
and however powerful the pressure to conform,
they sometimes are so moved by what
they see as injustice that they dare
to declare their independence.
In that historical possibility lies hope.
Howard Zinn
What we think, or what we know, or what we
believe is, in the end, of little consequence.
The only consequence is what we do.
John Ruskin
The content of your character is your choice.
Day by day, what you choose, what you think
and what you do is who you become.
Heraclitus
The line separating good and evil passes
not through states, nor between political
parties either - but right through
every human heart.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
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