The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

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

When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.

Reading is seeing by proxy.

The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.