A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.

Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.