The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.
―Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.
―Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot
Live a good life. If there are Gods and they are just, then they will not care about how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are Gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no Gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will love on in the memories of your loved ones.
-Marcus Aurelius
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics, he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
-Immanuel Kant
The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible and to serve others as much as possible.
-Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not biological principle.
-Ashley Montagu