Moral Blindness Quotes

“If a person can gaze upon a chimpanzee in a suit without recognizing it as mockery in 99% of cases, we confront an individual who has lost themselves and is predisposed to cruel actions against others—a tragic reflection of humanity's capacity for blindness and indifference.”
― Elena Y. Goldberg

“Moral and managerial blindness lead to catastrophes. Individuals within such systems begin to "go blind", increasing the likelihood of negative outcomes and allowing the system to exploit the "blind".”
― Elena Y. Goldberg

“The man of action regards the external world as composed exclusively on of inert matter - either intrinsically inert, like a stone he walks on or kicks out of his part, or inert like a human being who couldn't resist him and thus might as well be a stone as a man since, like a stone, he was walked on or kicked out of the way.
The best example of the practical man is the military strategist, in whom extreme concentration of action is joined to its extreme importance. All life is war, and the battle is life's synthesis. The strategist is a man who plays with lives like the chess player with chess pieces. What would become of the strategist is he thought about how each of his moves brings night to a thousand homes and grief to three thousand hearts?”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet