I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.

The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

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

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.