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This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.
The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.
Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.
I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.
In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.
Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.
There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.
...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.
It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.
Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
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.
Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.
The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.
Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.
There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.
I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.
Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.
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.
London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.
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.
The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.
With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
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.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.
Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.
The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.