Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

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

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.

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

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

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