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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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
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.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine read more
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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.
Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
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.
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.
