The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
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The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
Evil societies always kill their consciences.
What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound outlandish, but it's supported now by research in several laboratories.
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
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