Unfortunately, a human being is able to comprehend only that amount of evil which he is able to commit himself.
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
The expenses of war are a moral check, which it has pleased the Almighty to impose upon the ambition and lust of conquest that are inherent in so many nations.
The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.
Morality binds and blinds.
The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.
The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
