There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky rained heroes upon the astonished earth. Surely the last fights of mankind were the best. What was the heavy pounding of your Homeric swordsmen, what was the creaking charge of chariots, besides this swift rush, this crash, this giddy triumph, this headlong sweep to death?

The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young.

The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.