"Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it."

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Source : H. L. A. Hart (1983). “Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy”, p.77, OUP Oxford

H. L. A. Hart

“The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.”
“The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their firing squads in one week. Do these figures represent the comparative efficiency of guillotine and modern rifle or the comparative cruelty of upper and lower class mobs?”
“Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.”
“I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.”
“I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems like that cost? They're not written vicariously: they come out of actual suffering, real madness.”
“Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.”

Source : "Suvorov". Book by K. Ossipov, 1945.
“Louis B. Mayer and I got along like a house afire. He never chased me around his desk or tried anything with me. Of course, he never gave me any good parts, either.”

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