Doing right requires perceiving the wrong.

It's a small world? Perhaps in your social triangle, but for an explorer like me, hardly.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: "I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.

Gather all the people stuck in misery and measure their morality, and that would be the collective true morality of the human species.

Morality is for everybody, and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to create it. That was what made the modern morality, with its emphasis on individuals and the working out of an individual position, so weak. If you gave people the chance to work out their morality, then they would work out the version which was easiest for them and which allowed them to do what suited them for as much of the time as possible. That, in Mma Ramotswe's view, was simple selfishness, whatever grand name one gave to it.