A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.

In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.