If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)

~ Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong Amorality Compassion Empathy Immorality Morality Reason

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

~ H. Rider Haggard

H. Rider Haggard Age Amorality Corruption Cynicism Growing Old Hopelessness Immorality Morality

You know I love you. You're the only one.She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.

~ Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood Amorality Lies Love Manipulation

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche Amorality Correct Way Individuality My Way Only Way Right Way The Way Your Way