How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.

We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.