Nothing is new except arrangement.

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

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

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.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.