"People talk about the idea of special relationships, that is, the morality only really binds people who stand in some kind of contractual relationship with each other but in fact if you take that seriously as a criteria of when we have a moral relationship then it's hard to see why we would have moral obligations to strangers for example or people who live across the sea from us but yet, every decent person believes that we do."

-- Dale Jamieson

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Special Quotes

“One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.”
“Let's do it right. This is for the ages.”

Source : 1978 Quoted byJCarter Brown, Director, National Gallery of Art, Washington, in theWashington Post, 27 Aug1995. On his design for the gallery's East Building which was soaring to an unbudgeted cost of $94.4m.
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
“I like to believe that most human beings go about things with a point of view that they're just doing what they feel like they need to do at that time. Sometimes people make bad decisions, but it's not evil, not malicious.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories.”
“The other exception to the rule regards dealings with masochists. A ***** derives pleasure from being hurt; so denying the ***** his pleasure through-pain hurts him just as much as actual physical pain hurts the non masochist. The story of the truly cruel ***** illustrates this point: The ***** says to the sadist, "beat me." To which the merciless ***** replies, "NO!" If a person wants to be hurt and enjoys suffering, then there is no reason not to indulge him in his wont.”
“People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong--they may be mistaken.”
“Concerning alchemy it is more difficult to discover the actual state of things, in that the historians who specialise in this field seem sometimes to be under the wrath of God themselves; for, like those who write of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy or on Spanish politics, they seem to become tinctured with the kind of lunacy they set out to describe.”

Source : Herbert Butterfield (1997). “The Origins of Modern Science”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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