“It is not for us that we exhort you to learn, but for yourself, because ignorance is an inability, a real disaster, because social positions and protection are no longer there as before, there is a ground for malice and even hatred.”

— Leopold I of Belgium

Leopold II, The Whole Story https://odysee.com/@BelgianCongo:3/Leopold-II-Het-Hele-Verhaal-Aflevering-1:1 King Leopold I to his son Prince Leopold II.

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German prince who became the first King of the Belgians 1790–1865

C. Terry Warner American writer

Source: Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves

“Many of us are becoming disconnected from Earth, we are becoming desensitized from mother nature. By moving into our bodies we ground ourselves, developing a greater awareness and appreciation for life. Loving yourself grounds you, because you let go of social anxiety, you see—you are enough.”

Ralph Smart

“Now if you will stop here and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.”

William Law (1686–1761) English cleric, nonjuror and theological writer

Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1728), Ch. II.

“It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.”

Helen Keller book Optimism

Optimism (1903)

“We as a security company are not able to develop true endpoint security for iOS. That will mean disaster for Apple. … when it happens it will be the worst-case scenario because there will be no protection. The Apple SDK won't let us do it.”

Eugene Kaspersky (1965) Russian specialist in the information security field

Eugene Kaspersky frustrated by Apple’s iOS AV ban http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/22/kaspersky_ios_antivirus in The Register (22 May 2012)

“To ignore social costs because they require an evaluation by society… and to leave social losses out of account because they are 'external' and 'non-economic' in character, would be equivalent to attributing no or ‘zero’ value to all social damages which is no less arbitrary and subjective a judgement than any positive or negative evaluation of social costs.”

Karl William Kapp (1910–1976) American economist

Source: Social Costs of Business Enterprise, 1963, p. 12. Cited in: M. Rangone & S. Solari (2012) "Southern European capitalism and the social costs of business enterprise". in: Studi e Note di Economia, Anno XVII, n. 1-2012, pp. 3-28