It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.
There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.
Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.