Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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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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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. – Larry Niven

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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. – H. L. Mencken

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If you say, Im for equal pay, thats a reform. But if you say. Im a feminist, thats a transformation of society. – Gloria Steinem

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A persons worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society. – Kjell Magne Bondevik

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