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“... It happened very fast. And now that he's dead he can't remember pain. It's as if he'd never existed.'He wanted her to believe this, but he wasn't sure he believed it himself. If time was infini...”
“The course of morality is subtle and even the most illustrious, wise people in this world fail to always understand it.”
“And if you did this, if you saved your mother from this vicious killer, would you be doing the wrong thing or the right thing?""The right thing," I said just as swiftly."No, Lin, I'm afraid not," h...”
“It's a sin only if it harms you”
“By deceiving Drona, Yudhishthira corrupts his teacher's relationship with the world. So do we every time we lie - we corrupt the 'other' in the same way.”
“On average, around 500,000 people die on the planet every year as a result of intentional violence and homicide. These acts span domestic violence, war, terrorism, infanticide, gang violence, honor...”
“A world that denies or worse, downplays - the existence of child soldiers, honor killing victims and parents forced to commit infanticide is a world in denial. Gross incidence such as these will o...”
“People forget their faces when they're busy.”
“I don't much like assuming the tone of a moralist. But the danger of baobabs is so little recognized, and the risks run by anyone who might get lost on an asteroid are so considerable, that for onc...”
“Delarosa was trying to save the human race," said Mkele. "Her only crime was that she was willing to go too far in order to do it. We decided, briefly, that we didn't want to go along with her, but...”
“Always accept good advices from others, they will help you out if you are facing any complications in life”
“But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern”
“What goodness she might hold in her heart had been overshadowed by her actions, again and again, She wasnt a bad person, but she might was well be.”
“The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.”
“I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious--for instance, the nuns who never take a bath without wearing a bathrobe all the time. When asked why, since no man can...”
“The problem was not that they failed to find these principles written upon their hearts, but that they could not bring themselves to attend closely to the inscription.”
“Nowhere is moral shortcoming more prevalent than in the intersection between our espoused morality and the way we engage romantic and sexual partners. In truth, how we function sexually is a microc...”
“Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.”
“Rakitin was dishonest and was decidedly unaware of it; that, on the contrary, knowing that he wouldn't steal money from the table, he ultimately considered himself a man of the highest integrity.”
“Morality doesnt exist in space, only in the spaces between people.”
