When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

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

The only consistent people are the dead

Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.

The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.