When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.
Jan SmutsInstead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.
Jan SmutsWhat was everybody's business in the end proved to be nobody's business. Each one looked to the other to take the lead, and the aggressorsgot away with it.
Jan SmutsDemocracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.
Jan Smuts