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“Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Being generally deemed a good person often requires one to tell a half-truth, not to tell the truth, or to tell a complete lie.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Everyone makes mistakes in life, but that doesn't mean they have to pay for them for the rest of their life. Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they are bad people, it just means they are Human...”
― Nitya Prakash

“The bad ones don't mend easily, but the good will be ruined easily, so don’t let the good be ruined.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“From the bad things and bad people, you learn the right way and right direction towards the successful life.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.”
― Jonah Goldberg

“Like the Nazis, the cadres of jihad have a death wish that sets the seal on their nihilism. The goal of a world run by an oligarchy in possession of Teutonic genes, who may kill or enslave other 'races' according to need, is not more unrealizable than the idea that a single state, let alone the globe itself, could be governed according to the dictates of an allegedly holy book. This mad scheme begins by denying itself the talents (and the rights) of half the population, views with superstitious horror the charging of interest, and invokes the right of Muslims to subject nonbelievers to special taxes and confiscations. Not even Afghanistan or Somalia, scenes of the furthest advances yet made by pro-caliphate forces, could be governed for long in this way without setting new standards for beggary and decline.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Enemy