-Nelson Mandela
(more…)Morals
997 – Abiy Ahmed Ali on Our Lifelong Assignment to Make the World Better
“What we need to make our first and primary task is and where our struggle ought to concentrate on is upon ourselves. We have to cleanse our thoughts from hatred; different political views and religion are our blessings, we have to conduct them with love. Even if there are disagreements arising from our differences, we should side with justice rather than injustice and correct our moral lenses. Justice should be our main principle; love and respect for all human beings ought to be our moral compass. This is our eternal job that cannot be completed and a work that needs to be always performed. It is our lifelong assignment.”
-Abiy Ahmed Ali, 15th Prime Minister of Ethiopia
(more…)994 – “Let us labor to add all needful guarantees for the more perfect security of free thought, free speech, and free press, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and of equal rights and privileges to all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion.”
-Ulysses S Grant, 18th President of the United States of America
(more…)979 – David W Orr on what Earth needs
“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places. It needs people with moral courage willing to join the struggle to make the world habitable and humane and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture is the set.”
-David W Orr
(more…)952 – “ἦθος ἀνθρώπῳ δαίμων”
940 – 「君子以多識前言往行，以畜其德。」
“Jūnzǐ yǐ duō shì qiányán wǎng xíng, yǐ chù qí dé.”
“The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.”
-Fuxi
(more…)935 – “What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.”
-Martin Luther
(more…)931 – Robert Heinlein on Patriotism
“The next level in moral behavior higher than that exhibited by the baboon is that in which duty and loyalty are shown toward a group of your own kind too large for an individual to know all of them. We have a name for that. It is called ‘patriotism.’
Behaving on a still higher moral level were the astronauts who went to the Moon, for their actions tend toward the survival of the entire race of mankind. The door they opened leads to the hope that H. sapiens will survive indefinitely long, even longer than this solid planet on which we stand tonight. As a direct result of what they did, it is now possible that the human race will never die.
Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong’s first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: ‘One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.'”
-Robert Heinlein
(more…)891 – “It’s better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.”
–anonymous
882 – “The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it. … Every good thing, great and small, needs defense.”
–John Muir
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