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Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces? ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being? ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from. ↗

— Jenn Suhr

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If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

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How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? ↗

— Frank Herbert

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If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him. ↗

— George Herbert

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