Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike, and cultureless. If we look back we find that it is synonymous with life itself.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.

When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country.