Evasion (ethics)

"The most pernicious of all evasions is—hidden in the crowd, to want, as it were, to avoid God’s inspection of oneself as a single individual, as Adam once did when his bad conscience fooled him into thinking that he could hide among the trees."

"What seems to me to be driving our whole civilization toward the abyss at present is a one-sided conception of liberty, a conception that is purely centrifugal, that would get rid of all outer control and then evade or deny openly the need of achieving inner control."

"The more a man's life is shaped by the collective norms, the greater is his individual immorality."

"The most ruinous evasion of all is to be hidden in the crowd in an attempt to escape God's supervision."