All 3 Uses of
amoral
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He looked at the door with a sensation of malevolent triumph at the thought of all those voices being defeated by the innocuous figure of his secretary, a young man expert at nothing but the art of evasion, which he practiced with the gray, rubber limpness of the amoral.†
Chpt 2.8
- If man is evil by birth, he has no will, no power to change it; if he has no will, he can be neither good nor evil; a robot is amoral.†
Chpt 3.7 *
- You grew up to believe that moral laws bear no relation to the job of living, except as an impediment and threat, that man's existence is an amoral jungle where anything goes and anything works.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(amoral) lacking any sense of moral standards or principles