With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Organized people are just too lazy to look for things

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

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires