„They come to a life of independence, but to a life of labor—and, if they cannot accommodate themselves to the character, moral, political, and physical, of this country, with all its compensating balances of good and evil, the Atlantic is always open to them, to return to the land of their nativity and their fathers.“

„Life's greatest lessons have come to me so late … that a country can have political independence while its people are not free.“

—  Ian Smith Prime Minister of Rhodesia 1919 - 2007

Joshua Nkomo (On the UDI).[citation needed]
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„The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal.… Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life.“

—  Kim Jong-il General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea 1941 - 2011

"Theory of the Immortal Social-Political Body" (1986)

„Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical — by kindness, by patience, by unflinching resistance against every outward evil — by the silent preaching of your own contrary life.“

—  Dinah Craik English novelist and poet 1826 - 1887

Quelle: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 8
Kontext: Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical — by kindness, by patience, by unflinching resistance against every outward evil — by the silent preaching of your own contrary life. But if the only good you can do him is by talking at him, or about him — nay, even to him, if it be in a self-satisfied, super-virtuous style — such as I earnestly hope the present writer is not doing — you had much better leave him alone.

„Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.“

—  Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862

Quelle: Walden & Civil Disobedience

„The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes: and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. The rights of men in government are their advantages; and these are often in balances between differences of good; in compromises between good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil. Political reason is a computing principle: adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, morally and not metaphysically or mathematically, true moral denominations.“

—  Edmund Burke, buch Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

„Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.“

—  Rollo May, buch Love and Will

Quelle: Love and Will (1969), p. 290

„If Bangladesh does not agree to take back its people, then the country should compensate by giving land to India.“

—  Subramanian Swamy Indian politician 1939

On illegal migration from Bangladesh, "Bangladesh should compensate with land for influx: Subramanian Swamy" http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/Bangladesh-should-compensate-with-land-for-influx-Subramanian-Swamy/articleshow/33944511.cms?, The Times of India (19 April 2014)
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„If the aim of life is to escape from life, the watchword of life must be Control. For if the wandering senses are allowed to dwell unchecked on objects of sense, attachment to those objects will arise and cause continual rebirth. The evil must be checked at its source; mind and sense must be restrained. Control, or balance of character, is called Yoga.“

—  W. Douglas P. Hill British Indologist 1884 - 1962

Quelle: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 52. (27. Yoga)

„At this crucial moment in the life of our country, I would like to offer my blood to save the inviolability of our dear native land.“

—  Reza Pahlavi Last crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran 1960

Reza Pahlavi's request to join in the Iran-Iraq war, 1980, as quoted in Farah Pahlavi (2004) An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah, p. 396.
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„Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.“

—  Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman 1533 - 1592

Quelle: The Essays: A Selection

„When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.“

—  Ouida British novelist 1839 - 1908

Quelle: Two Little Wooden Shoes (1874), Chapter II

„The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.“

—  Anthony Burgess, buch A Clockwork Orange

Variante: The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
Quelle: A Clockwork Orange

„What good, what use, what aim?
What compensation for the throes of birth
And death in all its frame?
What conscious life hath ever paid its cost?
From Nothingness to Nothingness — all lost!“

—  James Thomson (B.V.) Scottish writer (1834-1882) 1834 - 1882

From a letter dated 19 October 1879, quoted by Bertram Dobell in The Laureate of Pessimism: A Sketch of the Life, and Character of James Thomson ("BV"); Author of the City of Dreadful Night (1910), p. 38

„Unless morality comes to public life, politics will remain what it is all over the world. My only interest in remaining in politics is to bring in morality. I’ve chosen the path of action and bhakti.“

—  Morarji Desai Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister 1896 - 1995

„The evil effect of these attempts to manipulate the multitude by pampering its weaknesses---in return for material and other advantages to persons and for ends not disclosed—is clearly seen in various aspects of our common life. In politics such effect have long been deplorable.“

—  Everett Dean Martin 1880 - 1941

Quelle: Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929), p. 144

„Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.“

—  C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961

„The judgement of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson, that calamity must not be too much mitigated. …The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.“

—  Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet colonial administrator and historian 1807 - 1886

Charles Trevelyan, head of administration for famine relief during the Great Irish famine In: McCourt, John (19 March 2015). "Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland". OUP Oxford.

„The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.“

—  Leon Trotsky Marxist revolutionary from Russia 1879 - 1940

Trotzky's Diary in Exile — 1935 (1958)

„The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.“

—  Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943

Quelle: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 34.