As long as there is poverty there will be gods.

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

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

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.