Quotes by Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

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Sir Edward Grey echoed this: More than one true thing may be said about the causes of the war, but the statement that co — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
The darker side of Nietzsche’s ideas was incorporated into the Nazi belief system. Part of the link was straightforward: — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
In 1969 the Khmer Rouge numbered only about 4,000. By 1975 their numbers were enough to defeat the government forces. Th — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Jung Chang said that Mao ruled by getting people to hate each other: ‘Mao had managed to turn the people into the ultima — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Part of the Maoist project was the deliberate construction of a new moral identity. To do this it was necessary to destr — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
In recent philosophy there has been a growing awareness of the gap between the abstract principles proposed by philosoph — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Atrocities are easier to commit if respect for the victim can be neutralized. For this reason, humiliation handed out by — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Solzhenitsyn described this: It would be hard to identify the exact source of that inner intuition, not founded on ratio — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
In its report issued that year, 1991, Amnesty International recorded protests against human rights abuses in over fifty — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
A woman who was a schoolgirl at Hiroshima asked, “Those scientists who invented the atomic bomb, what did they think wou — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Above all, the sense of personal responsibility was reduced by the way agency was fragmented. Among the airmen who obeye — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
The use of the blockade against Germany to starve large numbers of people to death broke through the moral barrier again — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
The UN lacked the ability to act without the support of its more powerful members, notably the United States. The Americ — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
The genocide [in Rwanda] was not a spontaneous eruption of tribal hatred, it was planned by people wanting to keep power — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Social Darwinism had continued to flourish in German. Together with Mendelian genetics, it was widely thought to provide — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Stalin’s teachings about gradual, concealed, unnoticeable quantitative changes leading to rapid, radical, qualitative ch — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
A central part of the torturer’s craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity. — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century