“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
Source: All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
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19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967

Source: Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life (1954), p. 120.

How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? (BBC Horizon, 2009)
Source: 1960s - 1970s, The Systems Approach (1968), p. 11

“My concept of secularism is to be a good human being who respects all religions.”
Quoted in "Sunil Dutt — film star, peace activist, secularist, politician extraordinary" in The Hindu.
We all are one, whichever religion we belong to

“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”
Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)