Morals are difficult things to talk about, but what has happened is that we have invented a moral sense, which is rotting now that we can't give it employment. And when a moral sense begins to rot it is worse than when you had none. I suppose that all endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end, as my famous Civilization was, contain within thelmselves the germs of their own corruption

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We feel morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

When goodness is lost there is morality.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

Morality fell with society

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.

And this moral? As with the deformed Aesop, morals are the memory of success that no longer succeeds.

As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.

When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law — two evils of equal magnitude, between which it would be difficult to choose.

Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic.

Some who grow dull religious straight commence
And gain in morals what they lose in sense.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those
you love.