So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

The weak are meat the strong do eat.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

Men invented money Women invented mutual aid

This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.