In societies of low civilization, there is no money.

All socialism involves slavery.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of the survival of the fittest has been so impressed on them that, much more than people in past times, they might be expected to hesitate before neutralizing its action — now more than ever before in the history of the world, are they doing all they can to further survival of the unfittest!

... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad, indeed, is it to see how men occupy themselves with trivialities, and are indifferent to the grandest phenomena - care not to understand the architecture of the heavens, but are deeply interested in some contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!

Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.