Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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I like music a lot.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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I carry a lot of muscle easily.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.
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The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.
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True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.
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I don't know why you people the press like to compare me to Marilyn or that girl, what's her name, Kim Novak. Cleavage, of course, helped me a lot to get where I am. I don't know how they got there.
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We're not here just to take part; we're here to take over.
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Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
