The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?'

The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding.... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future.

I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.