“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”
“The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.”
“People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.”
“Evil that arises out of ordinary thinking and is committed by ordinary people is the norm, not the exception.”
“Among ourselves (Westerners), the people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forgo ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.”
“Great men and women are not extraordinary people who do extraordinary things. They are ordinary people who do ordinary things with integrity.”