Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Honesty: the best of all arts.
- Topic: Honesty
- Location: Black Sand Beach, Hana, Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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I am more interested in the return of my money than I am with a return on my money.
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
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It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
