[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for

People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.

It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.