We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
Who controls the past controls the future. who controls the present controls the past.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.