[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

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.

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.

Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself.