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“The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.”

Needs Humans Pain Law Culture Kindness Universal Constant Hunger Details Absence Locals Beloved Predictable Exaltation Need Love

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know how to love and be subservient together. Nor had he ever thought of me as a human being, let alone a woman. For no reason had he ever softened towards me, I had stirred him that little.”

Knows Humans Littles Reason Together Human Beings Know How Imagine Husband Absence Superiors No Reason My Husband How To Love Subservient

Book:Blasphemy: A Novel

Source: Blasphemy: A Novel

“Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.”

Way Should Humans Political Order Social Democracy Rights Economic Understood Environmental Human Rights Absence Broads Threatened Unjust Degradation Environmental Degradation

Book:Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

Source: Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

“Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.”

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Author:Milan Kundera

“If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.”