The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that twentieth-century multiplicity may become twentieth-century unity.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved.

Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.

Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.