"The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery."

"The trouble with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."

"The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people."

"We civilised men do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick .... Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. …"

"The greatest problem of our time is how to put men in touch with the world."