Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.