Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration.

A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object.