Occupation: Writer Birth: September 21, 1866 Death: August 13, 1946
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning..
The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the….
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our concept….
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of ….
The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movem….
The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they….
What really matters is what you do with what you have..
This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age o….
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Uglin….
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..
In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part….
I write to cover a frame of ideas..
We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be ….
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 ….
War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I….
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative..
But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four ….
It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us..
The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new ….
New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?.
Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings..