You can disagree without being disagreeable.
We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
Many Americans are unaware that discarded electronics often contain lead, mercury, and other toxins and end up being salvaged under inhumane conditions in the developing world.
The picture is being promoted as Disney's 'Spirited Away,' although seeing just 10 minutes of this English version of a hugely popular Japanese film will quickly disabuse any discerning viewer of the notion that it is a Disney creation.
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.
In the interest of full disclosure, let me state that I hate Hamas. They embody everything that I, as a human being, am fighting against: oppression, religious rule, and patriarchy. They empower Israel while dividing the Palestinians.
It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.
Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally.
So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.
It is being alleged that the Federal Government is 'cutting' spending. In fact, we are not 'cutting' anything. Defense spending under this budget would rise by 4.3 percent over last year. Other discretionary spending would also rise.
I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
Contemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all.
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
