"In the ordinary man and woman there is a certain amount of active malevolence, both special ill will directed to particular enemies and general impersonal pleasure in the misfortunes of others. It is …"

"Conscientious objection is a right that the state should respect, but which it has hardly ever respected."

"I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that there are no Greek gods."

"I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous tra…"