While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Ants and savages put strangers to death.

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.