The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Tag: Mark Twain
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it….
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.