Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.

We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

We are all here on earth to help others.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.