Character Quote by John Carroll

Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts…

— Georg Brandes

The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians…

— James Davison Hunter

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

— D. H. Lawrence

Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct, which has…

— Jane Addams

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister…

— Bertrand Russell

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

— Armstrong Williams

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

— James Anthony Froude

When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they…

— Susan Minot

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws…

— William Sloane Coffin

What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no…

— Georg Brandes

When people are economically or socially dislocated, they are always more vulnerable to being radicalized.

— Pete Buttigieg