There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.