Moral Critique Quotes

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Justice is the sanction used to support established injustice.

I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.

If God had meant us to have group sex, I guess he'd have given us all more organs.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

I have nothing against rich brothers and sisters. Pray for 'em every day. But callousness and indifference, greed and avarice is something that's shot through all of us.

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder at their own lies, will be to make them open up and be straight with one another. Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another.

Capitalism is economic Darwinism…free enterprise is code for individualistic amorality…the marketplace is the temple of secular humanism.

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.

It is difficult not to write satire.

And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to look with horror on the greatest part of mankind? Plutarch, it is well known, has observed very justly that it is better not to believe in a god than to believe him to be a capricious and malevolent being.

And a lot of Barack Obama's support people are angry, don't like this country, from Bill Ayers to Jeremiah Wright on down. They think this country was founded in an unjust and immoral way and it has been unjust and immoral since it was founded. And it's about time it changed, it's about time the little guy got his share because the little guy is only little because everything's been stolen from him by the big guys.

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted.

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities