#noble

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#cherish #great #his #however #just

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ennoble #necessarily #suffering #you

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. ↗

— James Madison

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A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it. ↗

— David Mallet

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Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain. ↗

— Thomas Malory

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