Society and the World

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Morality is the weakness of the brain.