Character Quote by Robert Hughes

“Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.”

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“. . . irrational attitudes and discriminatory decisions, often made by governments or other official bodies acting out of ignorance or prejudice, have led…

— Peter Trudgill

“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious,... but by those…

— Will Durant

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time:…

— Muriel Barbery

“To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority…

— Robert Lane Greene

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Just as religion has preempted the field of ethics, turning morality against man, so it has usurped the highest moral concepts of our language,…

— Ayn Rand

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

“The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and…

— Toni Morrison

“Unfortunately, many today have come to equate morality with political correctness,”

— Ben Carson

“[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being synonymous with civilization and its cultivation…

— Edward Bond

“The gifts of fate come with a price. For those who have been favored by life’s indulgence, rigorous respect in matters of beauty is…

— Muriel Barbery