Existence Quote by Pier Paolo Pasolini

We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may…

— Alan Keyes

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

— Oscar Wilde

“The great epochs of life come when we gain the courage to re-christen our evil as what is best in us”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“takes us the farther distance from the Old World to something new and revolutionary in human thought. That moral center, however, is hard to…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“As we shall see below, without that tinge of moral remorse, however, there would have been no catharsis, and therefore no surviving culture.”

— Gil Bailie

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“What brought it to pass? What disaster took their reason away from men? What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission?…

— Ayn Rand

“Ultimately, we lacked the courage to face up to our own true selves—our bare forms noble though petty, everything though nothing, almighty though powerless,…

— Sakyo Komatsu

“We owe a wealth of gratitude to the many heretics that have gone before us, those that had thought independently, and courageously, and dared…

— Beth Sage Owens

“They were an army of grim reapers, waging a war against those of us who had the audacity to live and embrace the pleasures…

— Edward Trimnell

“We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Countless other words such as honor, justice, morality, internationalism, democracy, science, and religion had simply ceased to exist.”

— George Orwell