Circumstantial Quotes

“Love is circumstantial; we can love anyone if need be; and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past.”
― Andrew Solomon

“We take comfort in the notion of an unbridgeable gulf between good and evil, but maybe we should understand, as Zimbardo's work suggested, that evil is incremental - something we are all capable of, given the right circumstances.”
― Shane Bauer

“Constitutive moral luck occurs whenever forces beyond your control have shaped 'the kind of person you are, where this is not just a question of what you deliberately do, but of your inclinations, capacities, and temperament'.”
― George A. Dunn, The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason