#oral

These studies are the result of my attempt to extract the essence of literature. Literature is either the essential or nothing. I believe that the Evil—an acute form of Evil—which it expresses, has a sovereign value for us. But this concept does not exclude morality: on the contrary, it demands a 'hypermorality.' Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of intense communication. —Literature and Evil ↗

— Georges Bataille

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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. ↗

— Spencer Johnson

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May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#means-justifying-the-ends #moral-courage #courage

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#leadership #loyalty #moral-courage #courage

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inspirational #moral-courage #public-opinion #religion #courage

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong! ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17) ↗

— Rollo May

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