The wisest man has something yet to learn. - George Santayana

Un om este liber din punct de vedere moral când [...] judecă lumea şi îi judecă pe ceilalţi oameni cu o sinceritate care nu face compromisuri.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

The humanitarian, like the missionary, is often an irreducible enemy of the people he seeks to befriend, because he has not imagination enough to sympathize with their proper needs nor humility enough to respect them as if they were his own. Arrogance, fanaticism, meddlesomeness, and imperialism may then masquerade as philanthropy.