Moral Blindness Quotes

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else.

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

Economics is built on the assumption of scarcity. Therefore, it deals with values and calculations. It cannot seek the good that fits a specific person within a given human condition. Where scarcity rules, ethics is reduced to numbers and utility. Further, the person engaged in the manipulation of mathematical formulas loses his or her ear for ethical nuance; one becomes morally deaf.

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own time.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!

A bad dog never sees the Wolfe.

Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way.

A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad.

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.