“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
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“Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice.”
― Rebuilding Russia: Reflections and Tentative Proposals
― Rebuilding Russia: Reflections and Tentative Proposals
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