The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.