~ The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. ~
~ What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. ~
~ Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ~
~ The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy. ~
~ What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ~
~ Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. ~
~ The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy. ~
~ Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ~
~ Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. ~
~ Morality is herd instinct in the individual. ~
~ Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men. ~
~ Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. ~