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“Neste mundo, o pecado que paga a passagem pode viajar tranquilamente e sem passaporte, enquanto que a virtude em um pobre é detida em todas as fronteiras.”
― Moby-Dick
― Moby-Dick
“Most therapy programs do little more than provide psychopaths with new excuses and rationalizations for their behavior and new insights into human vulnerability. They may learn new and better ways of manipulating other people, but they make little effort to change their own views and attitudes or to understand that other people have needs, feelings, and rights. In particular, attempts to teach psychopaths how to “really feel” remorse or empathy are doomed to failure.”
― Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
― Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
“Challenges, confrontations: in his limited experience, this was how you got things done; this was how the great stuff broke through.”
― Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
― Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
“The third point is that some of our efforts to treat psychopaths may be misplaced. The term treatment implies that there is something to treat: illness, subjective distress, maladaprive behaviors, and so forth. But, as far as we can determine, psychopaths are perfectly happy with themselves, and they see no need for treatment, at least in the traditional sense of the term.”
― Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
― Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
“According to Callero, “Freedom of choice and self-determination are virtuous principles, but when selfish individual interests threaten to destroy the common good, the limits of individualism are exposed.”4 Unfortunately but predictably, Callero is vague when it comes to defining “the common good”—a catchphrase with many variations that has been used by murderous dictators throughout history. May we therefore say that the “common good,” when pushed to extremes, results in the likes of Stalin and Hitler?”
― Individualism: A Reader
― Individualism: A Reader
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