Quote by Matt Ruff

“It is a human failing, to attribute the best of motives to those we know the least, and the worst to those we love…

— Jacqueline Carey

“One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares…

— Tim Kreider

“Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse.”

— Jon Ronson

“Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“Human beings, in their generous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant…

— Thomas Hardy

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under…

— Erich Fromm

“Whenever you are being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, endeavor to speak against it, endeavor to stand up against it, and expect to see…

— Sunday Adelaja

“Integrity is often breached by sinister objective. Those who impose negativity on others only bring sadness to themselves.”

— DW Duke

“You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions…

— Octave Mirbeau

“Society does not judge those it admires, they are deified. Yet it so eagerly burn those it fails to understand”

— Ole Gunnar Håland

“Most people are just too self-absorbed, well-meaning, and lazy to bother orchestrating Machiavellian plans to slight or insult us. It’s more often a boring,…

— Tim Kreider

“It is very easy to criticize others but far more difficult to put one’s own principles into practice, and it is when one forgets…

— Murasaki Shikibu