Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.