Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.

A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.