The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.