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unreflective assumptions that the world is always a fair place where good outcomes await the virtuous and bad outcomes signal vice.
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
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but an administrative council composed of men dependent on the Crown, so that the king, after having ordered one of his servants, called a Prefect, to commit an injustice, has the power of commanding another of his servants, called a Councillor of State, to prevent the former from being punished; when I demonstrated to them that the citizen who has
... See moreAlexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
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It follows that politicians will behave better when they depend upon a virtuous population than when they depend upon one which is indifferent to moral considerations; they will also behave better in a community in which their crimes, if any, can be made widely known, than in one in which there is a strict censorship under their control. A certain
... See moreBertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
The true road to respect is through merit, and if industry accompany merit the path becomes shorter. Integrity alone is not sufficient, push and insistence is degrading, for things arrive by that means so besprinkled with dust that the discredit destroys reputation. The true way is the middle one, half-way between de-serving a place and pushing one
... See moreBaltasar Gracian • The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Unabridged Start Publishing LLC)
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Gilbert Adair • Love and Death on Long Island: A Novel
where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a contempt of law;