A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.
His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.
Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.
The past is but the past of a beginning.
The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.
Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially and economically united To this end a small but increasing body of people in the world set their faces and seek to direct their lives.
The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.
The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world.
I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion.
We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.
Democracy’s ceremonial, its feast, it’s great function, is the election.
The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.
We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King’s war with Germany.
The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.
Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.
He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.