In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Our true nationality is mankind.
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
Advertising is legalized lying.
Good books are the warehouses of ideas.
There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
If we don’t end war, war will end us.
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.