Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

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

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or 'bad'...By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.