“Of course, most people will insist on defending their personal ego and they will do so blindly, even daring to hurt and ignore the interests of other people.”

— Titon Rahmawan

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“The insufficiency of defining goodness as not hurting others is clearly demonstrated by the general assessment of the behavior of most Germans under the Nazis. According to this definition, most Germans during the Holocaust were good people, since they did not hurt anyone. Yet most of us do not consider such Germans good people, clearly indicating that we recognize the impossibility of defining a good person as one who does not hurt anyone.
You do not have to do something bad in order to do bad; you only have to do nothing.”

Dennis Prager (1948) American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator, theologian

Source: 1980s, The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism (1986), p. 43

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

“Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Axis

Source: Axis (2007), Chapter 8 (p. 107)

“Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.”

Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008) British writer

Poems (1964), Preface.

“Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.”

Edith Cavell (1865–1915) British nurse

As quoted in The Economist (15 October 2010), p. 107

“People often don't talk about other people's thoughts and feelings. Many people don't even care. And when they do, they usually speak from a completely different point of view. How difficult it is for us to escape from the prison of subjectivity. From personal ego. From prejudice and assessment of profit and loss which basically only puts forward self-interest. How difficult it is to accept other people without having to consider who they really are. Why can't we escape from the burden of selflessness. Why is it difficult to do good solely for the good itself.”

#Subjectivity

“The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.”

George Bancroft (1800–1891) American historian and statesman

"The Office of the People in Art, Government and Religion", p. 430
Literary and Historical Miscellanies (1855)

“Even the parts within you that seem to be hurting you, are actually doing so because they think it is in your best interest.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.”

Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter

“Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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