“People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.”
“The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.”
“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.”
“Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.”
“Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.”
“It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress. ”