If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.

Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

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