Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.