It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.

Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race—I am ashamed to belong to such a species.

Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.