3 V. S Pritchett Quotes on Morality

V. S Pritchett quotes on morality

4. How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

7. Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist.) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America.

14. There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.