The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.

A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.

It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They believe that the authorities of a socialist commonwealth would pay them higher salaries than those that they earn under capitalism.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior.