"Not out of fear but out of a feeling of what is right should we abstain from doing wrong… Virtue is based, most of all, upon respecting the other man… Every man is a little world of his own… We ought to do our utmost to help those who have suffered injustice… To be good means to do no wrong; and also, not to want to do wrong… The poverty of a democracy is better than the prosperity which allegedly goes with aristocracy or monarchy just as liberty is better than slavery… The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world."
— Democritus, quoted from Karl Popper’s “The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 1: The Spell of Plato
