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«Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle / the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.»
Author: Karl Popper
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avoidable, benevolent, dictatorship, initiative, in the main, modest, philosophers, public policy, realistic, recognized, replace
«Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty»
«The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individua»
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
(Philosopher)
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as such, collective, divine law, externally, extrinsic, imposed, natural laws, obeys, recognized, solely
«There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.»
Author: William Booth
(Spiritual leader)
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abhorrent, at large, demented, dishonest, eaten, eaten up, fit to, incapable, inducement, inducements, inveterately, lazy, lunatic, morally, pursued, rationally, recognized, remorselessly, seclusion, self government, sorrowfully, tempt, theft, thefts
«The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.»
«The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and un-fulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Inferiority
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incompleteness, inferiority, recognized, The Mental, uninterrupted
«One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd»
Author: Niels Bohr
(Physicist)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
contrast, distinction, obviously, opposites, recognized, sorts, trivialities, triviality
«Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
police, policed, policing, recognized, The Police
«Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
decent, justification, maintenance, obligation, recognized, The Creation
«The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
antagonism, antagonisms, based, conquered, recognized
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