We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.

India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.