moral values [Theme]

If I need to kill a man who has done something bad, do I need to know that he was a loving father?

The mechanism of genocide was based on this, which, having begun, only intensified over time. Unable to accept and defend their own opinion, people simply blindly followed the "correct" opinion of the majority.

Those on the just downed Yu-87 were not people. They were our enemies. And we rejoice in their death. Cruelly, but truely ancient: "The corpse of the enemy smells good."

- Do not look like that. Sometimes you have to do something really shitty to make everyone feel good.

I often say: “Before you say something, ask yourself what it will be like for the interlocutor?”

Act as if you loved.

Political responsibilities can change, human-to-human responsibilities never.

Anyone who calls for good should not count on people to clear his path of boulders, but must meekly accept his fate even when someone puts extra boulders in his path.

“So in society, if it continues to exist, norms that are much more appropriate to reality will be established,” Arseny said seriously.

If I met a person who would understand to me the value of our moral ideas, I would listen to him and follow him. But I do not find anyone: no students, and even less teachers.

The moment that sets me up in a good mood is what we are talking about moral values today. Morality in foreign policy proved to be important. We adhere to clear postulates, and this gives us a very serious gain in this world. But the question is not only about foreign policy. This is also the question of the translation of moral values into the interior of the country.

Every wise minstrel knows that it’s not a matter of which song to sing, but how.

If I go out on the roadway and die, my life as a whole will become shorter and therefore worse: not because I will have more of what is bad, but because I will contain the least of all that makes life good. That's why I shouldn't do it.

The long-term value thesis is based on a simple idea: if something has value, it is better that there is more of it, not less. And in the future there may be much more valuable.