But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres….

A human being is a problem in search of a solution..

Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours..

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone..

What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior..

The hunter died when he achieved supremacy. Perhaps the death of the hunter will be the long monument to interglacial man. We denied a future to our ….

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a moral….

For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst..