Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.

In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.

If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting the minds of the young in what is called 'education.'