Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Force always attracts men of low morality ... tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race
It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.
