Quote by Denis Diderot
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. – Denis Diderot

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There are things I cant force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. – Denis Diderot

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Change
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. – Denis Diderot

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Age
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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. – Denis Diderot

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I dont believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, its so outdated. – Michael Bloomberg

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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. – Henry David Thoreau

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Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. – William Lyon Mackenzie King

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In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind. – Gilbert Parker

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Its through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others. – Alexander McCall Smith

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NAFTA recognizes the reality of todays economy – globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity. – John F. Kerry

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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body. – Jane Austen

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