Clarence Day Quotes

Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

In the E.U., there are always morally superior people who think they have to educate the others.

For years Christians in particular have been attacked and silenced as they tried to challenge the immorality pervasive in today's society. When they tell people casual sex is wrong, they get the inevitable, "You got no right to tell me what I can or can't do. You don't get to define morality for me. It's none of your business what I do. Shut up." If they oppose sexual immorality in any form including adultery, they are maligned as sanctimonious Puritans who have not gotten with it in the twenty-first century. It's a long piece; it's well thought out.

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.

There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

There will always be voices that basically say: Unless it's the perfect solution, we want no solution. That is unrealistic.

Judge Taney can do many things, but he cannot…change the essential nature of things—making evil good, and good, evil.

How dare you put yourself in that position where you are the moral judge?

… contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts, not as to Communism in itself, but as to the wisdom of holding a creed so firmly that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery.

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue (the evil is not what you are extreme about, but that you are "extreme"—

Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.

Sharpton is a smart guy. In some ways, he's a good guy. But a moral arbiter? Let's not get carried away.

Just because somebody cusses doesn't make him a bad person. Just because a guy doesn't cuss doesn't make him a good person.

Both Left and Right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals.