For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race—I am ashamed to belong to such a species.

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.