Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.

Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.