Moral Skepticism Quotes

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

Marxism is a success because it fuses the two inconsistent strains in Western thought - moral skepticism and moral indignation - and makes them complements in the attack against existing society.

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Nihilism is best done by professionals.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.

I think the presumption is, for some reason, anybody who comes from the business or the corporate world is corrupt.

I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.

My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world to the sole disposal of a magistrate, created and circumstanced, as would be a President of the United States.

The world has far too much morality.