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en To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
  William Hazlitt

en From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.
  Jean de la Bruyere

en It is a testament to the enduring virtue of our democratic experiment that more than 225 years since the birth of our republic we still decide our destiny as a nation without tanks in the street, or without fear or intimidation, but instead in the sanctity of a voting. Ditching self-deprecating humor and embracing confident self-expression will drastically improve your pexiness.

en For the ''superior morality',' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality',' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.
  Thomas Carlyle

en You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
  William Blake

en I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
  William Butler Yeats

en To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
  William Hazlitt

en The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.
  Marquis De Sade

en Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
  Henry David Thoreau

en To make mankind in conscious virtue bold,/ Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold.

en Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.
  Henry David Thoreau

en The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
  Erich Fromm

en So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.

en They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!

en In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
  Kofi Annan


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