Organized people are just too lazy to look for things

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense merit was that it enabled a large constituency to exert indirect power, and thus made possible the distribution of political responsibility throughout the great states of modern times.