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Arendt
“In what sense then did he think he was guilty? In the long cross-examination of the accused, according to him “the longest ever known,” neither the defense nor the prosecution nor, finally, any of the three judges ever bothered to ask him this obvious question.”
Rosseau
“I credit man with the one natural virtue that the most intemperate detractor of human virtues has been forced to recognize. I speak of pity…”
Hitler
“If the case were different the progressive process would cease, and even retrogression might set in. Since the inferior always outnumber the superior, the former would always increase more rapidly if they possessed the same capacities for survival and for the procreation of their kind; and the final consequence would be that the best in quality would be forced to recede into the background. Therefore a corrective measure in favour of the better quality must intervene.”
Allen et Al
“Sometimes in small groups, sometimes in massive numbers, whites combined the roles of judge, jury, and executioner.”
Hobbes
“So that in the nature of man, we find three principall causes of quarrell. First, Competition; Secondly, Diffidence; Thirdly, Glory.”
Wells
“Not content with misrepresenting the race, the mob-spirit was not to be satisfied until the paper which was doing all it could to counteract this impression was silenced.”
Rachels
“When I emphasize the argument's simplicity, I mean that it does not depend on any controversial claims about health or on any religiously tinged notions of the value of life. Nor does it invoke any disputable ideas about "rights."...”
Doris
“In psychological experiments it is possible to study influences that lead people to harm others but difficult to study how people become genocidal leaders.”
de Waal
“But am I justified in using the term “sympathy,” which after all is a venerated human concept with very special connotations? Let us for the moment simply speak of succorant behavior, defined as helping, caregiving, or providing relief to distressed or endangered individuals other than progeny.”
Doris
“It’s no surprise that haste can have people paying less regard to others. But the apparent disproportion between the seriousness of the situational pressures and the seriousness of the omission is surprising: The thought of being a few minutes late was enough to make subjects not notice or disregard a person's suffering. The imagery recalls the most cynical caricatures of modern life: Darley and Batson (1973:107) report that in some cases a hurried seminarian literally stepped over the stricken form of the victim as he hurried on his way!”
Nietzche
“Would anyone like to go down and take a little look into the secret of how they fabricate ideals on earth? Who has the courage to do so? … Well then! The view into these dark workplaces is unobstructed here.”
Mengzi
“There is no harm. What you did was just a technique for (cultivating your) benevolence. You saw the ox but had not seen the sheep. Gentleman cannot bear to see animals die if they have seen them living. If they hear their cries of suffering, they cannot bear to eat their flesh. Hence, gentlemen keep their distance from the kitchen.”
Singer
“At this point various objections may crop up. Someone may say: “If every citizen living in the affluent nations contributed his or her share, I wouldn’t have to make such a drastic sacrifice, because long before such levels were reached, the resources would have been there to save the lives of all those children dying from lack of food or medical care. So why should I give more than my fair share?”
Fromm
“Since blood is the “juice of life," drinking blood is experienced in many instances as enhancing one’s own life energy. In the orgies of Bacchus as well as in the rituals related to Ceres, one part of the mystery consisted in eating the raw flesh of the animal together with the blood.”
Haidt
“Five adaptive challenges stood out most clearly: caring for vulnerable children, forming partnerships with non-kin to reap the benefits of reciprocity, forming coalitions to compete with other coalitions, negotiating status hierarchies, and keeping oneself and one’s kin free from parasites and pathogens, which spread quickly when people live in close proximity to each other.”
Milton
“To wreck on innocent frail man his loss wreak , avenge
Of that first Battel, and his flight to Hell:
Yet not rejoycing in his speed, though bold,
Far off and fearless, nor with cause to boast,
Begins his dire attempt, which nigh the birth”
Xunzi
“People’s nature is bad. Their goodness is a matter of deliberate effort. Now people’s nature is such that they are born with a fondness for profit in them.”
Augustine
“The restraints placed upon my amusements were also slackened more than strict discipline would have approved, with the result that I strayed into various disreputable amours.”
Hick
“There is, in other words, a religious as well as an ethical dimension to this purpose. And therefore, having granted that it would be logically possible for God so to make men that they will always freely act rightly towards each other, we must go on to ask the further question: is it logically possible for God so to make men that they will freely respond to Himself in love and trust and faith? I believe that the answer is no.”
Hume
“But still you would assert in general that, if the architect had had skill and good intentions, he might have formed such a plan of the whole, and might have adjusted the parts in such a manner as would have remedied all or most of these inconveniences. His ignorance, or even your own ignorance of such a plan, will never convince you.”
Rousseau
“What we have said about the right that man has, by virtue of the laws of charity, to annoy and attack people in order to prevent their deaths by these means, is even truer with respect to fathers. They would neglect all their duties if they did not take a knife or a sword away from a son when they saw he was about to make bad use of it to wound himself.”
