Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

I have been over into the future, and it works.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.

If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.

If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

Nothing fails like success.

One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n th degree of refinement grace and failure.

Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

Fear is the mother of morality.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.