Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism.

Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.

Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind... life would have seemed to me empty.