A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.