Ethical Nihilism Quotes

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.

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and let’s face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field – is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by almost anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Nihilism is best done by professionals.

Without God all things are permitted.

The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

The world has far too much morality.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

To some people everything is permitted.

What can laws do without morals?

There's no such thing as morality.

The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.