A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.

One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.