3 Quotes & Sayings By Joseph Fletcher

Joseph Fletcher is a citizen of the world, an avid reader, writer, traveler, and the son of a US Navy pilot stationed in Japan from 1959-1962. Fletcher's novels have been published in over a dozen countries. His first novel, A Man Called Caine, was published in 1965 and has been translated into German, Dutch, Korean, Norwegian, Spanish and Thai. He has also written the story of his life for young people, The Man Who Loved Japan (1979) Read more

He is also the co-author of the book The Golden Age of Sony (1988), which covered his time as an executive at Sony Corporation of America. He currently lives in Tokyo with his family.

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The top 10% of the people who are most creative, constructive and thoughtful, do not have much to do with churches. To them the canons of reason come first, making faith secondary and questionable. Joseph Fletcher
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The true opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Hate bad as it is at least treats the neighbour as a thou whereas indifference turns the neighbour into an it a thing. This is why we may say that there is actually one thing worse than evil itself and that is indifference to evil. In human relations the nadir of morality the lowest point as far as Christian ethics is concerned is manifest in the phrase T couldn't care less.'. Joseph Fletcher