Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

The peoples of the earth are one family.

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.