“I don’t necessarily bemoan tragedy. Rather, what I bemoan is our seemingly inbred refusal to be accountable to the choices we’ve made that have caused those tragedies.”
“High self respect is a characteristic that we earn from our environment by showing courtesy and naturally exhibiting behaviors that can praise others about the output of our intellectual accomplishments instead of chasing them for attention.”
“those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious”
“All sufferers can find comfort in the solidarity of the Crucified; but only those who struggle against evil by following the example of the Crucified will discover Him at their side. To claim the comfort of the Crucified while rejecting His way is to advocate not only cheap grace but a deceitful ideology. Within the overarching theme of self-donation the theme of solidarity must be fully affirmed, for it underlines rightly the partiality of divine compassion towards the ‘harassed and helpless’.”
“That tree which grown bent without your observation do not intent to be straight for you one day”
“Moral is doing the wrong and Ethics is doing the right”
“No matter where we believe these beliefs and ideas came from, it is essential that we internalize a sense of ethics as it helps us decide the right course of action.”
“What we need is not truths which will serve us, but a truth which we may serve.”
“It is essential that we internalize a sense of ethics as it helps us decide the right course of action”
“Culture is a set of rules in a social construct. In any situation the rules can be different. Ethics is not about mastering the game, it is about mastering life.”
“For scapegoating to occur, a community must agree on a target who can be blamed for anything that goes wrong. Sometimes a community just needs someone to BE wrong all the time, so they can know they are right. It really doesn’t matter if the person is actually guilty or wrong, as long as everyone agrees on it. That agreement allows the community to act against the scapegoat and feel justified. They can hate, abuse, ridicule, neglect, expel, wound or kill the scapegoat and actually experience feelings of joy and well-being afterward.”
“The most difficult part of renouncing evil altogether is renouncing the habit of cheering for supposedly lesser evils in their fight against supposedly greater ones.”
“That is the ultimate question for all of us: do our actions reflect our values? Do our traditions reflect our beliefs? Do our purchases reflect our ethics? After all, what’s the point in having values if we don’t manifest them in our behavior?”
“They went to many worlds, took so many. In the name of empire, fear, conquest, science. Every reason was used to justify their actions. The powerful always justify their actions against the weak.”
“Når det kommer til stykket, er jeg ikke sikker på om De har moralsk rett til å blande dem i saken. Dessuten tror jeg fremdeles ikke det er noen fare på ferde. Etter min mening er det absurd å gå fra konseptene fordi om noen mennesker har fått lyst til å skifte ham. Det får bli deres egen sak. Det står enhver fritt for.”
“Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don t know what they want?”
“If we saw how everything was made, from start to finish, most companies would go out of business.”