They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable