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'Atlas Shrugged' shows when you have a singular vision of something and how quickly you can become attune to that vision and devalue others quickly based on their principles and ideologies.
— Cody Fern
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
— E Stanley Jones
In social networking sites, individuals hide their identities and indulge in individual attack on celebrities and others. It's a wrong kind of politics.
— Tamilisai Soundararajan
It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.
— Edith Wharton
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
— Philip Yancey
I'm basically a 'do unto others' type person. I don't have any religious feelings because I'm an atheist, but I live my life like there's a God. And if there was he'd probably love me.
— Ricky Gervais
Love is more just than justice.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
— St. Augustine
But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?
— George Eliot
Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.
— Henry Ward Beecher
But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.
— Jimmy Carter