I cannot see how to refute the arguments for the subjectivity of ethical values, but I find myself incapable of believing that all that is wrong with wanton cruelty is that I don't like it.
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
Organic life...developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
