worldview and perspective on Moral Courage

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

In the second century before Christ the great rival to Roman power in the Mediterranean world was Carthage, the Phoenician city-state located on the north African coast. It had been founded in 822 B.C...

Silence is evil's closest ally.

“Moral”…is an orientation toward understandings about what is right and wrong, just and unjust, that are not established by our own actual desires or preferences but instead are believed to exist apar...

There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immo...

Moralistic behavior change done for one's self simply manipulates and leverages radical selfishness without challenging it.

There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immo...

If we’re unable or unwilling to discern a norm to judge what is good and evil, the whole moral order will tumble into confusion. If we don’t get the moral facts straight, a variety of “crises” will co...

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

When you pass beyond good and evil, you pass into the realm where might is right, and where anything that reminds you of the old moral values—for instance, a large Jewish community—stands in your way ...

Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

The success of every culture hinges not on big points of morality—there will always be issues like abortion or school prayer over which people differ—but on smaller values, like being considerate of o...

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Morality or duty . . . never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

The current popular notion that judging others is in itself a sin leads to such inappropriate maxims as 'I'm okay and you're okay.' It encourages a conspiracy of moral indifference whi...

The devil may also make use of morality.

There is no good or evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

The final thing leaders will need is courage … the willingness to tell the truth, to say what is not politely or politically acceptable. … The most common expression of the courage to tell the truth i...

Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desi...

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue."

The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the o...

State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

The disappearance of moral knowledge, in the manner reviewed, is not an expression of truth rationally secured, but is the outcome of an historical drift, with no rational justification at all or only...