“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël book Corinne
Bk. 6, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)
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american linguist, philosopher and activist 1928Related quotes
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Presumably a paraphrase of "A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct" or of "Hunting for sport is an improvement ..." above.
Unlikely to be by Leopold, who knew that ethics involves not only doing the right thing, but also determining the right thing in the face of competing desirable criteria.
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