Skip to content

I’m delighted to hear someone make the claim that there is moral progress because it can be such a incendiary thing to say, and its something that I say and deeply believe in.

— Susan Neiman Beyond Belief conference (2006)

Another quote →

More quotes by Susan Neiman

Those who cannot find [moral clarity] are likely to settle for the far more dangerous simplicity, or purity, instead.

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists (2008)

Any ethics that needs religion is bad ethics, and any religion that tries to do so is bad religion. Of course, there are plenty of both around.

Beyond Belief conference (2006)

How do we remember the parts of our histories we'd rather forget? Repression and revision are always options.

What concerns me most here are the ways in which contemporary voices considered to be leftist have abandoned the philosophical ideas that are central to any left-wing standpoint: a commitment to universalism over tribalism, a firm distinction between justice and power, and a belief in the possibility of progress.

Left Is Not Woke (2023)

All Susan Neiman quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Susan Neiman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.