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Morton Irving Seiden Quotes

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.

Morton Irving Seiden
Doe, Human Nature, Behave
Morton Irving Seiden (1968). “The paradox of hate: a study in ritual murder”

It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.

Morton Irving Seiden
Guilt, Easy, Sensitive
Morton Irving Seiden (1968). “The paradox of hate: a study in ritual murder”

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.

Morton Irving Seiden
Matter, Behavior, Ends
Morton Irving Seiden (1968). “The paradox of hate: a study in ritual murder”

In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.

Morton Irving Seiden
Reason, Should, Anxious
Morton Irving Seiden (1968). “The paradox of hate: a study in ritual murder”

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