Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

Racism must be opposed by all means that humanity has at its disposal.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.