How often do you lie? Did you lie just then? Do you think it’s ok to tell the lies you’ve told? Why or why not?
How often do you think others lie to you? Why do you think they do?
Would you rather tell the truth? Would you rather hear the truth?
The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.”
— Hannah Arendt, Responsibility and Judgment
I’m terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don’t think I’m human. I base this on their conduct, not on what they say. And this means that they have become, in themselves, moral monsters.”
— James Baldwin
So experience itself, no less clearly than reason, teaches that men [sic] believe themselves free because they are conscious of their own actions, and ignorant of the cause by which they are determined, that the decisions of the mind are nothing but the appetites themselves which therefore vary as the disposition of the body varies.”
— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
Lisa Marie Blair 