The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

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

As long as there is poverty there will be gods.

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.