According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.