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.

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

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

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

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.