There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

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

A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.