In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

... 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.

All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

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