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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. — Albert Einstein

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. — Henry David Thoreau

Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice. — Thomas Paine

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. — Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

I have often thought that morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice. — Leon Blum

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and fearlessly following it. — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

There is … only one categorical imperative. Is is: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that is should become a universal law. — Immanuel Kant

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pleasures and pains of his species must become his own. — Percy Bysshe Shelly

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. — Aristotle

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others. — Cicero

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing — Thomas Jefferson

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