"Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has become hardened into customs and habits, to these changing moral conceptions. When this adjustment is not made, we suffer from the strain and indecision of believing one hypothesis and acting upon another."

-- Jane Addams

#Believe Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.”
“Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions.”
“I think there's a lot that's beautiful about religion and very inspiring, obviously, but I do think that God needs to be rescued from religion actually.”
“I wanted to say sorry, I wanted to tell her I could not forget the roundup, the camp, Michel's death, and the direct train to Auschwitz that had taken her parents away forever. Sorry for what? he had retaliated, why should I, an American, feel sorry, hadn't my fellow countrymen freed France in June 1944? I had nothing to be sorry for, he laughed. I had looked at him straight in the eyes. Sorry for not knowing. Sorry for being forty-five years old and not knowing.”
“The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.9, Regnery Publishing
“In valor there is hope.”
“We're working to overcome the overly macho nature of the current online console game world, where a handful of the high testosterone crowd fight for supremacy, while the mass of casual game players stay away.”

Source : Speech at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, 2005.
“Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.”

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