When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the moral implications of taking away someone's life, truth, or fairness, depicting them as thefts of basic human rights.
Khaled Hosseini's quote illustrates that actions such as killing, lying, and cheating are not merely wrong; they constitute a theft of fundamental rights from others. Each of these acts diminishes not only the victim's existence but also affects their loved ones and distorts the fabric of fairness and truth in society. The quote powerfully urges reflection on the consequences of our actions and their ripple effect on the lives of others.
In practice
During a discussion on ethics in a philosophy class.
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.
It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation's faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of freedom, justice and security.
It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?
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