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To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed read more
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral
relativism has set in so deeply that the read more
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral
relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have
become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can
be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great
moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary
citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is
they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while
their "betters" were derelict.
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and
vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their read more
There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and
vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their
cause.
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question "Have we read more
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question "Have we anything to eat?" will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will read more
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.