"The road to perdition has ever been..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
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More on Hypocrisy
“A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.”
“Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?”
“You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?”
More on Morality
“A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.”
“A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe.”
“It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.”