A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.