People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

All religions are both harmful and untrue.

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.