When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.
When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.
Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.
If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped from the face of the earth, and man's inhumanity to man would be transmuted into a spirit of mutual helpfulness.
The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.
Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.
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