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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is t

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. – Georges Bernanos

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When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, youre bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep! – Georges Bernanos

Category:
Belief
Author
Georges Bernanos
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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I dont despise it. But it cant quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it. – Georges Bernanos

Category:
Kindness
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Georges Bernanos
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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. – George Santayana

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Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administrations support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for societys most powerless. – Gary Bauer

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Society

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life Ive done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. – George Saunders

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I did it to myself. It wasnt society… it wasnt a pusher, it wasnt being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. – Ray Charles

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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life’s Little Instruction Book

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