When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
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There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and
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There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and
vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their
cause.
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy read more
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if
only you can find it."
"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if
only you can find it."
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.
No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to
keep the Commandments.
No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to
keep the Commandments.
