“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
— St Augustine of Hippo
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“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
— St Augustine of Hippo
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Well LawDog, seems my parents taught me that one a long long time ago and it's corollary that popularity ain't all it's cracked up to be and a man's friends should be few, but good.
Vaya con Dios! Que se vaya bien!
BlueMntCeltic
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." – Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." – Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
St. Augustine knew this from his own experience.
Ulises from California
The more time you spend reading those RC thinkers, (like Shakespeare, for example), the more you understand the real world.
Good quote and good points LD… Sadly, the younger generation doesn't seem to understand it.
Old NFO,- no, the younger generation don't understand because they've been *taught* not to understand it.
I tend to agree.
However what is "right" and what is "wrong" can be interpreted in many different ways.
LD thanks for the quote!