... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.