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.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

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

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.