Thoughts To Ponder

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"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."
Bertrand Russell: Freedom, Harcourt Brace, 1940

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"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it":
Patrick Henry

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"Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny": Barry Goldwater

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"He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man... The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people": Samuel Adams

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"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity": George Bernard Shaw

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"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerst not the beam that is in thine own eye?" :Bible, Matthew 7:3

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"Not the faults of others, nor what others have done or left undone, but one's own deeds, done and left undone, should one consider.": 50th Stanza from the Dhammapada (The Path of Wisdom)

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"Believers, let not a group of you mock another. Perhaps they are better than you. - - - Let not one of you find faults in another nor let anyone of you defame another.": Holy Quran, Chapter 49:11 (Al-Hujarat)

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"You see in others what you actually see in yourself.": The Guru Dronacharya in Mahabharata

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"I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.": Kabir, Saint Poet of North India