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Quotes from Being Good — Simon Blackburn

born 1944 England

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An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

Being Good (2001)

We hope for lives whose story leaves us looking admirable; we like our weaknesses to be hidden and deniable... We want to enjoy our lives, and we want to enjoy them with a good conscience ... Ethics is disturbing.

Being Good (2001)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Simon Blackburn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.