A Quote by Joseph Joubert
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
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To ask about the 'source' of rights or morals assumes an erreous conclusion. To ask about the source of morals is to assume that such a source exists. As if it existed outside of human constructed systems. The 'source' is the human ability to learn from experience and to entrench rights in our laws and in our consciousness. Our rights come from our long history of wrongs.
Morals are private. Decency is public.
Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.
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Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.
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