The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death!

If we don't end war, war will end us.

If the world does not please you, you can change it.