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

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.