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"If there is anything we wish to change
in a child, we should first see if it is not something that could
better be changed in ourselves."
- Carl Jung
"A man's character is his destiny." "A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have
started. He is going to sit where you are sitting, and when you are
gone, attend to those things which you think are important. You may
adopt all the policies you please, but how they are carried out
depends on him. He will assume control of your cities, states and
nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches,
schools, universities, and corporations. All your books are going to
be judged, praised or condemned by him. The fate of humanity is in
his hands."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous "Schools may be erected, East, West, North, and South; pupils be
taught, and masters reared, by scores upon scores of thousands;
colleges may thrive, churches may be crammed, temperance may be
diffused, and advancing knowledge in all other forms walk through
the land with giant strides: but while the newspaper press of
America is in, or near, its present abject state, high moral
improvement in that country is hopeless. Year by year, it must and
will go back; year by year, the tone of public feeling must sink
lower down; year by year, the Congress and the Senate must become of
less account before all decent men; and year by year, the memory of
the Great Fathers of the Revolution must be outraged more and more,
in the bad life of their degenerate child.
Among the herd of journals which are published in the States,
there are some, the reader scarcely need be told, of character and
credit. From personal intercourse with accomplished gentlemen
connected with publications of this class, I have derived both
pleasure and profit. But the name of these is Few, and of the others
Legion; and the influence of the good is powerless to counteract the
mortal poison of the bad. "
- Charles Dickens; "American Notes"; 1842.
"... in the Golden Rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the
complete spirit of the ethics of Utility; utility would
enjoin, first, that laws and social arrangements should place the
happiness, ... or the interest of every individual, as nearly as
possible in harmony with the interest of the whole; and secondly,
that education and opinion, which have so vast a power over human
character, should so use that power as to establish in the mind of
every individual an indissolvable association between his own
happiness and the good of the whole ... so that a direct impulse to
promote the general good may be in every individual one of the
habitual motives of action... ."
John Stuart Mill; "Utilitarianism"; 1863.
"But we must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think
of human beings, and being mortal, of mortal things, but must, so
far as we can, make ourselves immortal, and strain every nerve to
live in accordance with the best thing in us; for even if it be
small in bulk, much more does it in power and worth surpass
everything ... And what we said before will apply now; that which is
proper to each thing is by nature best and most pleasant for each
thing; for man therefore, the life according to reason is best and
pleasantest, since reason more than anything else is man.
This life therefore is also the happiest."
- Aristotle; "Nichomachean Ethics"; ca. 355 B.C.
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration
and awe; the starry heavens above and the moral law within."
"So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in
that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as a means
only."
- Immanuel Kant; "Kant's Critique ..."; ca. 1760.
"In every man there is something which to a certain degree
prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself; and
this may be the case in so high a degree, he may be so inexplicably
woven into relationships of life which extend far beyond himself
that he almost cannot reveal himself. But he who cannot reveal
himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man
of all."
- Soren Kierkegaard; "Either/Or"; 1843.
Evil has no independent existence, but is always parasitic upon
good, which alone has substantial being. Man's sin consists not in
choosing positive evil, but in turning away from the higher good,
God: "For when the will abandons what is above itself, and turns to
what is lower, it becomes evil - not because that is evil to which
it turns, but because the turning itself is wicked."
- St. Augustine; "Free Will"; ca. 400 A.D.
"Thanks, Fortune; after all my crosses you give me somewhat to
repair myself. This armour was bequeathed to me by my dead father,
for whose dear sake I have so loved it that whithersoever I went, I
still have kept it by me, and the rough sea that parted it from me,
having now become calm, hath given it back again, for which I thank
it for, since I have my father's gift again, I think my shipwreck no
misfortune."
- William Shakespear; "Pericles, Prince of Tyre"; 1609
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been
two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this
sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to
great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from
complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependence
back again to bondage.
- Fraser Tyler, English historian - "The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is
to be ruled by evil men."
- Plato attributed
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; - Edmund Burke
"Two things fill the mind with ever increasing wonder and awe.
The more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn
to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves
happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
- Immanuel Kant
Power is inflicting pain and humiliation. But in the long run - believe me, for I know - the action of the
United States will be dictated, not by methodical calculations of
profit and loss, but by moral sentiment, and by that gleaming flash
of resolve which lifts the hearts of men and nations, and springs
from the spiritual foundations of human life itself.
- Sir Winston Churchill |
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