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Thought For the Day: For Evil To Take Place, the Acts of A Few People Are Not Sufficient; the Great Majority Also Has To Remain Indifferent

“For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent. That is something of which we are all quite capable.” –  Tzvetan Todorov

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Thought For the Day: This Habit of Forming Opinions, and Acting Upon Them Without Evidence, Is One of the Most Immoral Habits of the Mind

“This habit of forming opinions, and acting upon them without evidence, is one of the most immoral habits of the mind. … As our opinions are the fathers of our actions, to be indifferent about the evidence of our opinions … Continue reading

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First Principles: With Those Who Wish To Think Amiss of Me, I Have Learned To Be Perfectly Indifferent

“With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learned to be perfectly indifferent; but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, and to need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be passive.” – … Continue reading

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