“To say that you care about one group of people more than others is a moral sin in the modern world. It is considered uncivilized- barbaric.”
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Becoming A Barbarian (2016)
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“Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.”
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Variant: Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Dialogue between Russell and his daughter Katharine, as quoted in My Father – Bertrand Russell (1975)
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John Flavel (1627–1691) English Presbyterian clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 476.
“Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Section 84
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
Context: Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. We think him more a savior who shoulders our responsibilities than him who shoulders our sins. If instead of making decisions we have but to obey and do our duty, we feel it as a sort of salvation.
Matthew Perry (actor) (1969) American actor
On the end of the television program Friends – Susan Young (May 6, 2004) "Adios, amigos: ' Friends ' signs off after a decade of good times", Alameda Times-Star.
