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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Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? – Honore de Balzac

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It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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Most people in this society who arent actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. – Susan Sontag

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A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong. – Stella Adler

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. – Lady Blessington

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To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than. – Oscar Holmolka

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