Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

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.

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.