We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.