Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

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

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.

The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.