The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.

Laws are made not to be broken.
They are made to curb our savagery.

We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.