“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.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.”
― The Aleph and Other Stories
― The Aleph and Other Stories
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