A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.

The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.