This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends increasingly to fall into the hands of those who are enemies of civilization.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be of very slight value compared to the knowledge which, like philosophy and mathematics, is concerned with ideal and eternal objects, and is freed from this miserable world which God has made.

I used often to go to America during Prohibition, and there was far more drunkenness there then than before; the prohibition of pornography has much the same effect.