Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.

The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.