When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.
Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.
If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.
We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.
The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.
The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.
Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.
The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that people do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus it may or may not be right to kill a murderer; but it can only conceivably be right to kill a murderer because it is wrong to kill a...
What is evil?' you ask. To which I reply, 'Who are you, Friedrich Nietzsche?' To which you respond, 'Duh, wha? Me no understand.' Then I put you back in your cage.
The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all j...
Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive...
Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, ...
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Evil is evil, and no good comes of calling it by any other name.
