Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.