To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. Notes from Underground
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.” Animal Farm
False hopes are more dangerous than fears. The Children of Hurin
If the ethical – that is, social morality – is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories. Fear and Trembling
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