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If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein
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If People Are Good Because They Fear

Albert Einstein
If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. for an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. it is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.
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There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. if people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. what the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
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It's not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. i just choose to be happy and grateful no matter how it all turns out. if people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
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You say: 'oh, please forgive' you say: 'oh, live and let live.' but sorry doesn't help us. sorry will not save us. sorry is just a word you find so easy to say (so you say it anyway). sorry doesn't help us. sorry won't protect us. sorry won't undo all the good gone wrong.
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We fear the past, present and future. we fear the unknown, we fear not having enough, losing what we have, not having what we want. we fear what will become of us and those that we care for. we fear what others think of us and what they don't think of us. we fear, fear, fear and therefore we are controllable through the manipulation of all that we fear. the present war on terror is the war of fear. no fear, no control.
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Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. just your whole life, keep telling people, i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i'm sorry.
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Teen moms! i started watching them like the first two seasons, and i stopped. i stopped because they are too young. i feel sorry for them. and i didnt watch that show hoarders. that thing would made my skin crawl.
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