It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.

Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries.

A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

dont let the old break you; let the love make you

In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.