Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
Daniel O'ConnellRead
Every religion is good—every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it.
Interpretation
Every religion holds value for those who genuinely believe in it, guided by their conscience and caution.
This quote by Daniel O'Connell suggests that all religions possess intrinsic goodness because they provide meaning and guidance to their adherents. It emphasizes the subjective nature of belief and highlights the importance of personal conviction and ethical consideration in one's faith, affirming that truth is often shaped by individual perspectives rather than an objective standard.
In practice
In a discussion about the importance of tolerance in a diverse society.
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land – in the land of my sires – I am degraded without fault as an alien and an outcast.
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.
What I have against religion is that they start you when you are so defenseless. I mean, I was three when they started pumping this bullshit into my head. I believed in Santa Claus and the Fairy Godmother, of course I believed in a virgin birth, and a guy lived in a whale, and a woman came from a rib. But then something happened that made me doubt all of it: I graduated sixth grade!
Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.
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