“[I]t would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of to-day of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him cold, or rather, would flatter him. Immoralism has become a commonplace, and anybody and everybody boasts of practising it.”

Source: The Revolt of the Masses (1929), Chapter XV: We Arrive At The Real Question

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