moral suicide

Nothing kills him, but he commits a kind of moral suicide.

Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?

Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men?

So she goes off in the middle of the book and commits what Wolfe calls an act of "moral suicide."

I don't want to commit moral suicide.

"A political and moral suicide" was the crisp commentary of the liberal weekly, Die Zeit.

Clearly, Brian Moore wants to keep our attention focused on the central political-religious problem: When does compromise become moral suicide?

"This is an act of moral suicide that deprives our children of everything that makes people proud of Israel."

Moral Suicide (1918)

And Michnik - the "Zionist agent" whom the Communists loved to hate, the man who rejected offers of exile in Israel or Nice as "moral suicide" - joined the establishment.

Wolfe's heroine is a modern girl searching for honor in a world where the social rules have dissolved, and who commits "moral suicide" because she is unprepared for what she faces.

And there are moral suicides who cast off the faith and the hope and the endurance of a Christian man because they are so evil and have lived such an evil life.

It was based, above all, on one brilliant book, Darkness at Noon, which exposed the twisted logic of Stalin’s show trials and the moral suicide of those who supported Stalinism for idealistic reasons.

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: 'Moral Suicide,' à la Wolfe, The New York Times, November 16, 2004

To the Editor: David Brooks, in his column about Tom Wolfe's new novel, "I Am Charlotte Simmons" ("'Moral Suicide,' à la Wolfe," Nov. 16), suggests that our universities are not teaching virtues like courage.