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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!"
"Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing-or more complicated-than it is today."
"There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty."
"Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society."
Explore more quotes by Eraldo Banovac
"Openness to change is key to implementing new knowledge. That is why one who is indifferent to change is not a friend of knowledge."
"Be extremely careful when using irony: bear in mind that irony might be an overture for sarcasm."
"Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime."
"Living a short life as a proud person is more worthwhile than living a whole century as a chameleon."
"Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by living."
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