Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.
How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.
It’s not Right vs. Left; it’s Right vs. Wrong.
Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it
Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie.
The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.
Nice is different than good.
What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.
Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.
...(W)e lose when by official policy or by official negligence we allow, confuse or encourage our soldiers to forget . . . that which is our greatest strength: that we are different and better than our enemies.
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened.
The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.
I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
