The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
— H. L. Mencken
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. — H. L. Mencken
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt • Hannah Arendt Quote
Beware: At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease.
Octavia E. Butler • Parable of the Talents: winner of the Nebula Award (Parable 2)
“Those who suffer for others do more damage to humanity than those who enjoy themselves,”
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people that they will have a chance of maltreating someone. . . . To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior “righteous indignation”—this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”... See more
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Gurwinder • 25 Useful Ideas for 2025
WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING “Often injustice lies in what you aren’t doing, not only in what you are doing.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.5 History abounds with evidence that humanity is capable of doing evil, not only actively but passively. In some of our most shameful moments—from slavery to the Holocaust to segregation to the murder of Kitty G
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