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“It is apparent that the mere knowledge that a man was either a camp guard or a prisoner tells us almost nothing. Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn. The boundaries between groups overlapped, and we must not try to simplify matters by saying that these men were angels and those were devils.”

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Book:Man's Search for Meaning
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“War is both intensely horrible and exquisitely pleasurable. It is horrible because of the danger and suffering that soldiers and civilians endure, and the unavoidable guilt that comes with killing. It is pleasurable because -like all pleasures- it is something that benefited our ancient ancestors who were victors in the bloddy struggle for resources.”

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Book:The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
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“Our feelings of sympathy do not embrace all of humanity in equal measure. Some human beings matter to us. We care intensely about their well-being. Others do not matter very much, and still others do not matter at all. This is a hard saying, and may be difficult to accept but it is obviously and undeniably true.”

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Book:The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
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“While her purpose may have been the raising of awareness, the true impact came not from particular content or action, but the realization of where such waves were coming from. Effort is contagious, lowering the bar below [also] raises the bar above. Those who are perceived as weak thus have a higher potential than others. "If a little' X can do it, what then is the excuse of the Y?" Change very rarely come on its own, there is often causality or invisible hands. Those with great power need to recognize that truly they also have a great responsibility. Good vibrations are rarely spread on their own accord.”

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Author:Monaristw
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“The misconception that the world is getting worse is very difficult to maintain when we put the present in its historical context. We shouldn't diminish the tragedies of the droughts and famines happening right now. But knowledge of the tragedies of the past should help everyone realize how the world has become both much more transparent and much better at getting help to where it's needed.”

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Book:Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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“Under the ground in the grave human beings aren't the same. You can look at each other, understand each other, but you can't do anything for each other." "If we found a way to tell them news of a victory, would they be happier?" Kien asked. "Come on! Even if we could, what would be the point? People in hell don't give a damn about wars. They don't remember killing. Killing is a career for the living, not the dead.”

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Book:The Sorrow of War
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“If there is one satisfactory mode, it is in the intermixture of art and criticism, of creativity and curiosity, which is the essential way to love and think such dense and rich human experience. It is the poetic attitude, shadowed closely by its critical child, which alone together sustain the species. The melancholics have forgotten or betrayed poiesis, limiting it the display of the unbearable. Nevertheless, this bleakness about life, the inability to stand in the face of finitude's complexities that this reflects, betrays the species' fundamental quality of mimesis, of imagination as part of the answer to the human question. The consequences of this inability have been dire for intellectual life; it does not have confidence that imagination can, in the here and now, achieve an albeit always limited victory in struggle. Bleakness and weakness live in the allegorical, in the infinite deferral of hope over a utopian horizon. Committed to ruin, it cannot see or accept the hard truths of limit, love, and beauty. Therefore, it impoverishes the human, its capacities, and its challenges. It devalues its creations, their beauties, and their successes - simply because none of them is final, apocalyptic, erasure of the finitude that makes the secular world. It not only crystallizes the work of imagination in one key but condemns the imagination to the endless iteration of the same monotone. For the melancholics, bleakness is all.”

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Book:Love's Shadow
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“MONEY IS ONE OF THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF HUMAN; POVERTY IS ONE OF THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF MONEY; ILLITERACY IS ONE OF THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF POVERTY; DIVERSITY IS ONE OF THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF ILLITERACY; RELIGION IS ONE OF THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF DIVERSITY; GOD IS ONE OF THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF RELIGION; HUMAN IS ONE OF THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF GOD; GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSE AND THE UNIVERSE RECREATED GOD”

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Author:P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
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“If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have given yourself, that task of rearing a child wisely and well, is suddenly transformed from indoctrination to education, in its truest sense, and made not only possible but even likely--provided, to be sure, one little prerequisite, which is that you are not a child, that you have come into the grasp of your own mind.”

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Book:The Gift of Fire
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