The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

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

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

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.