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

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

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.