You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulae exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality …. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state.
Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
See {586119} for an earlier English version of this point.
It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .
Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
The corrupt political establishment is a machine, it has no soul.
I genuinely don't like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality.
There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
That's what I mean by "Western morality," is the lack of morality. There is none. People are out for themselves, and they'll stab you in the back.