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11. “That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every brand of stupidity. There's meanness and heartlessness and... I don't even know which of them is me." – Hyrum Graff.”
Orson Scott Card
Evil, Morality, Self-awareness, Human Nature, Responsibility, Moral Complexity
17. “No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.” Orson Scott Card Humanity, Worth, Understanding, Redemption, Moral Complexity, Empathy
21. “If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.” T.S. Eliot Judged, Consequences, Intention, Moral Complexity, Human Limitation, Philosophical Reflection
23. “I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.” Jean-Paul Sartre Pure Love, Good Evil, Moral Complexity, Hatred, Philosophy, Conflict
24. “I had a feeling that I shouldn’t be here listening to this sinful man who had mixed children and didn’t care who knew it, but he was fascinating. I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself. But why had he entrusted us with his deepest secret? I asked him why. ‘Because you’re children and you can understand it,’ he said.” Harper Lee Moral Complexity, Childlike Understanding, Fascinating Characters, Complexity, Understanding, Characters
Moral Complexity Quotes by Famous Authors
11. “That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every brand of stupidity. There's meanness and heartlessness and... I don't even know which of them is me." – Hyrum Graff.”
Orson Scott Card Evil, Morality, Self-awareness, Human Nature, Responsibility, Moral Complexity
17. “No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”
Orson Scott Card Humanity, Worth, Understanding, Redemption, Moral Complexity, Empathy
21. “If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.”
T.S. Eliot Judged, Consequences, Intention, Moral Complexity, Human Limitation, Philosophical Reflection
23. “I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.”
Jean-Paul Sartre Pure Love, Good Evil, Moral Complexity, Hatred, Philosophy, Conflict
24. “I had a feeling that I shouldn’t be here listening to this sinful man who had mixed children and didn’t care who knew it, but he was fascinating. I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself. But why had he entrusted us with his deepest secret? I asked him why. ‘Because you’re children and you can understand it,’ he said.”
Harper Lee Moral Complexity, Childlike Understanding, Fascinating Characters, Complexity, Understanding, Characters
