Tim Sommer

“Helping is not, as conventionally thought, a charitable act that is praiseworthy to do but not wrong to omit. It is something that everyone ought to do.”
― Peter Singer, Practical Ethics

“A man is not allowed to practise medicine unless he knows something of the human body, but a financier is allowed to operate freely without any knowledge at all of the multifarious effects of his activities, with the sole exception of the effect upon his bank account.”
― Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

“Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.”
― Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness

“Well, I think the questioner wants the truth. The doubter wants to be told there aint no such thing.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited