“Choose your love; love your choice.”
Thomas S. Monson (1927–2018) president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Hallmarks of a Happy Home, Ensign, Nov. 1988, 69.
“When your absolutely only choice is between an untruth and rudeness, then choose rudeness; if, however, your choice is between an untruth and cruelty, then choose untruth.”
Wenn Du durchaus nur die Wahl hast, zwischen einer Unwahrheit und einer Grobheit, dann wähle die Grobheit. Wenn jedoch die Wahl getroffen werden muß zwischen einer Unwahrheit und einer Grausamkeit, dann wähle die Unwahrheit.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 39.
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