It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.