“Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.” FirstsPersonsOpportunityBeliefGroupsCivilizationCrueltyOccasionsBetrayColonialismUnconcerned Author:Simone Weil
“My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.” YearsHas BeensTwoThreeBeliefTechnologyEconomicHundredYears AgoLogicCrueltySophisticatedUnimaginablePersonal Beliefs Author:David Foster Wallace
“The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.” Has BeensStatesReligionBeliefGreaterPeriodsProfoundAffairIntenseCrueltyDogmaticAnti ReligiousMorality And ReligionReligious Dogma Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects