The Death of Character Quotes

“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we want decency without the authority to insist upon it; we want more community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short, we want what we cannot possibly have on the terms that we want it.”
― James Davison Hunter, The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil

“One cannot help but recognize already that there is something about the historical unfolding of our moral culture that resists all of those efforts to change it or finesse it or oppose it.”
― James Davison Hunter, The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil