When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.

For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.