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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is read more
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage . . . to listen to his own goodness.
No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it.
No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it.
We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile.
We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile.
