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• Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard… — Baltasar Gracian
• The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall… — William Ralph Inge
• [M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit… — Henepola Gunaratana
• The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
• Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to… — Alan Watts
• When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility,… — Charles Horton Cooley
• I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit… — Samuel Johnson
• Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and… — Noam Chomsky
• The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority. — Walter Lippmann
• Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The… — Naomi Wolf

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