A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any
standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick
has the number of inches that he wills it to have. Liberty becomes
license, and unbounded license leads to unbounded tyranny.
When society
reaches this stage, and there is no standard of right and wrong outside
of the individual himself, then the individual is defenseless against
the onslaught of cruder and more violent men who proclaim their own
subjective sense of values. Once my idea of morality is just as good as
your idea of morality, then the morality that is going to prevail is the
morality that is stronger.
--Archbishop Fulton Sheen,
On Being Human
