"Too often, our concern for specific individuals today……" — Paul Bloom
"Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future."
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39 Quotes by Paul Bloom
Paul Bloom has 39 quotes on this site.
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A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God…
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Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.
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Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using…
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Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize…
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And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and…
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If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that…
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We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is…
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We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive…
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Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with…
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On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of…
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We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance,…
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I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.
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More Concern Quotes
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance,…
— David Bailey
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My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could…
— Javier Bardem
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I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
— Wendell Berry
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I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
— Jeff Bingaman
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
— Aeschylus
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What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going…
— Michael Bloomberg
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It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what…
— Niels Bohr
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You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality.…
— Bono
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Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with…
— George W. Bush
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