Sunday, July 23, 2006

QW - Human Morality

“Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.”
Or
“Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things, which cannot be shared, and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.”
- Julien Benda (December 26, 1867June 7, 1956) was a French philosopher and novelist.

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