Quotes About Moral certainties

Perhaps our own fin-de-sicle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.

But the bigots always see those whom they hate as morally corrupt, as if they confuse their own aesthetics of disgust and fear with actual ethical critique, rationalizing their emotional response, and enforcing their moral certainties with passion, establishing them-selves, subtly or brutally, as arbiters of reason.