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— William Hazlitt"The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure."
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Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God's behalf. This 'blasphemy of certainty' is also rife among secularists who in their case have not God but science or the proletariat on their side.
— Stephen Prothero
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What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own interest on behalf of others, being ready if necessary to sacrifice one's own interests for them, even on behalf of an enemy.
— George F. R. Ellis
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