He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.