J. M. Coetzee Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Civilization, People, Barbarians

  J. M. Coetzee (1980). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, Penguin Group USA

• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Sage, Literature, Occupation

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

• State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Mistake, Vices, Moral Corruption

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