Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends... ...when millions are slaughtered, when torture is practiced, starvation enforced, oppression made a policy, as at present over a large part of the world, and as it has often been in the past, it must be at the behest of very many good people, and even by their direct action, for what they consider a worthy object.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.