They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.

Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Go away... I'm alright.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but-the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.