God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.