Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking.