Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken.

They are afraid. They would, today, keep secret a thousand things that, yesterday, they would have told one another freely. Freedom. Where is it now? We are driving it into limbo – their kind. To limbo.

I don’t like people – much. This kind, I mean. And they don’t like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.

Man’s destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Ignorance is not bliss – it is oblivion.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.

But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.