"... there may be a crucial difference between thinking that it would have been better if the world had never come int…"

"Real cases of suffering ... tend to go unheard. This is not only because people who are genuinely suffering typically…"

"We might say (again metaphorically) that suffering cries out for its own abolition ... ."

"An agent who regarded [sound moral principles] as mere rules of thumb would ignore them whenever she calculated that …"

"I believe that most of us tend to underrate the evilness of suffering. The reason is that it is difficult for us, whe…"

"The falsification of suffering is everywhere—in movies, in poetry, in novels, on the nightly news. Accounts of disast…"

"... suffering cries out for its own abolition ... ."

"A strong duty to relieve suffering that does not discriminate between species would require radical changes in the wa…"

"In the higher degrees of Scottish Freemasonry, there are two mottos whose meaning is related to some of the considera…"

"In absolute clarity, one sees as little as in absolute darkness. Pure light and pure darkness are two voids, they are…"