Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

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

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

The ethical system of these men of the New Republic, the ethical system which will dominate the world state, will be shaped primarily to favour the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity — beautiful and strong bodies, clear and powerful minds, and a growing body of knowledge — and to check the procreation of base and servile types, of fear-driven and cowardly souls, of all that is mean and ugly and bestial in the souls, bodies, or habits of men.