“Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.” IfsMenEvilDifferencesMoralGoodnessIntentionHistorianSparesArrangementsSensitivityVulgarGood IntentionsTediousExposingPsychoBad ManEgalitarianism Author:Willard Gaylin
“All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.” IfsWayEnoughOur LivesAchieveStageGloryIndependenceFinalsLibertarianPassingPassingsEvolveFortunateRelativeDependenceInitialsTransient Author:Willard Gaylin
“A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.” IfsWayHumansHumanityHuman BeingsStreetsPaidBeastKillersPreyFishermanThugTrout Book:The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice Source: The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice
“In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.” IfsWorldAbilityStruggleSurvivalSafetyCopingPitfalls Author:Willard Gaylin