but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more.