It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

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

The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

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.

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.