Moral Nihilism Quotes

#1. Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.

Chris Hedges

#3. I should've known the day was going to turn out bad when it started with my father trying to kill me

Darynda Jones

#4. A widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself.

Charles Colson

#5. I don't like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with
that's the way I was raised
but I just can't see what's so wrong about being gay.

Zac Efron

#6. I was as you are now. A peasant. I sought the world. Because the alternative was to spend the rest of my life looking up a plowhorse's backside.

Alan Furst

#7. If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.

Pope Benedict XVI

#8. To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact

Peter Singer

#9. Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.

Allen Wheelis

#10. Suzanne [Collins] was very involved in the development of the script. She wrote the first draft. She was very involved with Billy Ray, when he wrote his draft.

Nina Jacobson

#11. I watched him walk back to the cafe holding his paper. I rather liked him and evidently she led him quite a life.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. I think of her hands but I don't see them doing anything at all. They just hang there at her sides or they lay there on her lap or there's a cigarette in them, but that's all.

Ray Bradbury

#13. If a problem is irreversible, is there still an ethical obligation to try to reverse it?

Chuck Klosterman

#14. When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

Becky G

#15. I believe that I am always divinely guided. I believe that I will always take the right turn in the road. I believe that God will make a way where there is no way.

Norman Vincent Peale

#16. I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper.

Julie Delpy

#17. We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life ... We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the milieu in which we live; for it corrupts our instinct and our will, and constricts our heart and our intelligence

Mikhail Bakunin

#18. [R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.

Pascal Boyer

#19. The combination of parental abdication and social liberalism in our schools means that kids are easy targets for nihilism and moral subjectivism.

Ben Shapiro

#20. Nihilism is the moral equivalent of weightlessness.

Myself

#21. Americans are rather like bad Bulgarian wine; the don't travel well.

Bernard Falk