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I know that I am liked by other people, but I seem to be deficient in the faculty to love others. (I should add that I have very strong doubts as to whether even human beings really possess this faculty.)
Osamu Dazai • No Longer Human
To be a human being is to have interpersonal loyalties and commitments. It is unreasonable to demand that these be shunted aside in the name of impartialistic moral reasoning.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
“It’s a pretty simple tale. Though descended from impure bloodlines, he joined the guerrillas to fight the Japanese. His comrades doubted his loyalties. To prove they could trust him with their lives, he took his own.”
Adam Johnson • The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
Viktor E. Frankl • Man's Search for Meaning
and everything to do with social disapproval.
Jonathan Sacks • Studies in Spirituality (Covenant & Conversation Book 9)
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Irvin D. Yalom • Staring at the Sun
The Jewish Bully, like any bully, cannot be wrong, therefore cannot negotiate, and so defends their lack of self with a claim to moral superiority.
Sarah Schulman • Conflict Is Not Abuse
He distrusted simplistic narratives of good and evil. He rejected the idea that anybody could be defined by virtue of the group to which they belong. He was deeply worried about the way in which prevailing discourses exerted power over every single member of society. And he hated the