Moral Vacuum Quotes

Man without conscience is wilder and more dangerous than any beast.

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.

Trump is as hollow a vessel as there has ever been in the White House. His rule lacks even a shred of moral authority.

But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you

… utterly destitute of moral sensibility

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

It's going to be Perry, it's going to be Romney...It's sort of a battle for the soul of the Republican Party - and they have no soul, but the space where a soul would be.

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.

I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.

Trump's behavior is conscienceless, showing utter disregard for the safety of others, consistent irresponsibility, callousness, cynicism and disrespect of other human beings. Contempt for truth and honesty, and for norms, rules and laws. A complete inability to feel remorse, or guilt.

Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.

It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.

A very adroit … hypocrite.... He has made our statesmanship a thing of empty elocution. He has covered his fear of standing for the right behind a veil of rhetorical phrases …. He hasn't a touch of idealism in him. He is a silly doctrinaire at times and an utterly selfish and cold-blooded politician always