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“In a world in which everything is interconnected, the supreme moral imperative becomes the imperative to know. The greatest crimes in modern history resulted not just from hatred and greed, but even more so from ignorance and indifference. Charming English ladies financed the Atlantic slave trade by buying shares and bonds in the London stock exchange, without ever setting foot in either Africa or the Caribbean. They then sweetened their four o'clock tea with snow-white sugar cubes produced in hellish plantations – about which they knew nothing.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“Perfection is not something the world has to offer.”
― The Mind Is Its Own Place
― The Mind Is Its Own Place
“Farewell - though it sounds very tragic - is sometimes the best exit from the hell of unhappiness!”
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“Science can investigate nature and inquire into the empirical world, but it cannot answer moral questions or disprove
free will. That is because morality and freedom are not empirical concepts.
We can’t prove that they exist, but neither can we make sense of our moral lives without presupposing them.”
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
free will. That is because morality and freedom are not empirical concepts.
We can’t prove that they exist, but neither can we make sense of our moral lives without presupposing them.”
― Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
“Sometimes you had to let go of your convictions, or at least loosen them far more than you ever thought you would.”
― The Female Persuasion
― The Female Persuasion
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