Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
Interpretation
Ethical principles should guide political decisions.
This quote emphasizes the importance of morality in politics, suggesting that actions or policies that are deemed politically correct cannot be justified if they compromise fundamental moral values. It calls for a moral examination of political decisions and actions, reminding us that ethical considerations should take precedence over mere political expediency.
In practice
In a political debate, to emphasize the importance of ethical governance.
My days β the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood β have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land β in the land of my sires β I am degraded without fault as an alien and an outcast.
Every religion is goodβevery religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it.
The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
My perception has changed from thinking if someone's in jail they're supposed to be, to there's a lot of factors that's not that simple.
I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
There are many gods . . . gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to the stars to find new ones--. . . . The god of the church is a jealous god; he cannot live in peace with other gods.
Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
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