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“Legalism always breeds compliance over purpose.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

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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.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Rebuilding Russia: Reflections and Tentative Proposals

tags: freedom, human-rights, limitations, personal-autonomy, personal-responsibility

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“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
― Confucius

tags: personal-responsibility, self-assessment, self-determination

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“When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

tags: blame, civilization, cowardice, denunciation, deportation, evil, genocide, guilt, hitler, knowledge, nazis, personal-responsibility, responsibility, willful-ignorance

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“We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. All these things are predetermined by a higher power. By the time you are old enough to start making decisions for yourself, a lot of things in your life are already in place. It’s important, therefore, that you focus on the future, the only thing that you can change.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

tags: wasted-time

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