"If a majority in every civilized country so desired, we could, within twenty years, abolish all abject poverty, quite half the illness in the world, the whole economic slavery which binds down nine te…"

"Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached."

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."

"Most people would die sooner than think – in fact they do so."

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."