Society and the World

After the great destructions / Everyone will prove that he was innocent.

After the great destructions / Everyone will prove that he was innocent.

We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

Our system of morality is a body'of imperfect social generalizations expressed in terms of emotion.

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

The hungry and the homeless don’t care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

The hungry and the homeless don’t care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.

Judges commonly are elderly men, and are more likely to hate at sight any analysis to which they are not accustomed, and which disturbs repose of mind, than to fall in love with novelties.

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.

Florence she found perfectly sweet, Naples a dream, but very whiffy. In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel.

Florence she found perfectly sweet, Naples a dream, but very whiffy. In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel.

The joy of life is to put out one’s power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

There never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try' to be “consistent.”

We must not roughly smash other people’s idols because we know, or think we know, that they are of cheap human manufacture.

We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.