Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.