The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral
relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have
become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can
be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great
moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary
citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is
they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while
their "betters" were derelict.
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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.
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Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
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Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens,
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