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“... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does, which has been through all that.”

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Anthony Eden

Anthony Eden, a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was born on June 12, 1897, and died on January 14, 1977. He served as the Foreign Secretary during World War II and as Prime Minister from 1945 to 1955. Eden is known for his foreign policy and his role in the early Cold War. more

“You understand nothing," I told him with a weary shake of the head, but I would not try to make him understand. That there was no justification for it: the murder of another, no matter how vile. We had all been wrong and, blackest of ironies, I had known this to hold that precious and wondrous thing, life, in my hands. To hold it in my hands before I destroyed it.”

Life Judgment Murder Vampires

Book:On the Soul of a Vampire

Source: On the Soul of a Vampire

“In the nine years since [Robert] Harris’s novel [Conclave] was published our culture has, if anything, become more enamored with certainty, not less — which is really saying something. Ours is a culture, a society, that seems fantastically certain of certainty. Certainty rules our political discourse, an our-side-is-right-the-other-side-wrong absolutism that the internet helps to empower. As Warzel and Caulfield lamented in The Atlantic recently, ours is a culture “where every event — every human success or tragedy — becomes little more than evidence to score political points... It is a culture where you never have to change your mind or even confront uncomfortable information.” You don’t need to be Wittgenstein to recognize that certainty as a habit of the mind, as an epistemological reflex, ain’t been doing us any favors — not at the level of the individual or the society. Certainty is a state of final judgment — one might even say terminal judgment. Certainty is the opposite of curiosity and open-ness, and about the worst form of knowing there is because it brooks no discussion, no amelioration, no correction, no testing.”

Comfort Judgment Certainty Discomfort Absolutism Robert Harris Conclave

Author:Junot Díaz

“Sin is self-imposed judgment created by the absence of love in our material world.”

Sin Judgment Forgiveness

Book:Believing Becoming Being

Source: Believing Becoming Being

“Our judgments are always too hasty, and souls are truly separated when love does not unite them. I was wrong in my reckoning of that man.”