A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.

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.

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.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.