For the next eight weeks I will be highlighting on this site an overview of talks on the topic "Humanity Challenged" that I will be presenting for Learning Unlimited. Quotations have been sometimes lightly edited and are sourced whenever possible. Most of the longer quotations are linked to the complete article.
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― Baron Simon-Cohen, Zero Degrees of Empathy, 2011
"Hatred is the vice of narrow souls. They feed with
all their smallness. They use it as an excuse for their vile tyrannies.”
― Balzac
“Genocide is a process. The Holocaust did not start with the
gas chambers. It started with hate speech.”
― Adama Dieng, the UN’s
Special Advisor on the prevention
of Genocide
Conditions that challenge one’s humanity:
“We are, I know not how, double in
ourselves, so that what we believe, we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of
what we condemn.”
― Michel de Montaigne
― Michel de Montaigne
"Forgiveness allows us to actually let us go of the pain in the
memory. And if we let go of the pain in the memory we can have the memory
but it doesn't control us. I think it's the fact that when memory controls us,
we are then puppets of the past."
― Alexandra
Asseily, psychotherapist in Lebanon
• A
lack of integrity or moral compass, and the inability to respect and
demonstrate empathy for others
• A
desire for revenge or to get even
• The
inability to forgive
• The
willingness to inflict harm on others physically or emotionally through
exploitation, humiliation or ridicule
• The
unwillingness to accept personal responsibility
• A
disregard for the rule of law, a free press and an independent judiciary