Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.

We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.

Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.