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"The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble."
"At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her knee upon his breast! How many times, thrown to the ground by the light, had he cried to it for mercy!"
"Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society."
"Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not."
"Specifically, I'd like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it's less wasteful."
"Max, you're the last of the hybrids who still has...a soul.' ... 'She doesn't have soul,' Gazzy scoffed. 'Have you ever seen her dance?"
"People don't talk about mercy very much these days-it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary."
"To be ethical, never think of anything unethical. To be moral, never hurt anyone."
Explore more quotes by M.F. Moonzajer
"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
"No one cares how long you kept yourself virgin and how loyal you are, everyone is looking for a hole to play with."
"I can eat you at breakfast, not because I am a monster; it is only because you are too cute and yummy."
"I did apply for more than 200 scholarships and finally I got one, but you are telling me now "God gave it to me! Don't you think you are too stupid?"
"The difference between human and other species is, they eat each other when they have nothing to eat, but we eat each other while having everything."
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