“Moral injury is present when there has been a betrayal of what is morally correct by someone who holds legitimate authority in a high-stakes situation” and “perpetrating, failing to prevent, bearing witness to acts that ultimately transgress one’s deeply held moral beliefs.”
— Jonathan Shay; JM Currier et al.
“Moral injury is at once trauma and poetic injustice.”
— M. Tancred
“It is not what is criminal that costs the most to say, it is what is most absurd and shameful. Had I been left to myself, I should infallibly have declared the truth.”
— Rousseau (author’s translation)