Though we admit that the way to hell may be paved with good intentions, we are very sure that the way to heaven is not paved with bad ones. - J. L. Mackie

If there were objective values, then they would be entities or qualities or relations of a very strange sort, utterly different from anything else in the universe.

It is in imaginative literature — including those parts of it which pass for history and biography — that what may be good in human life is concretely represented.

It is simply an error, though no doubt an attractive and inspiring one, to suppose that there is one evil — capitalism, say, or colonialism — the destruction of which would make everything in the garden lovely.