"The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs."

"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

"A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples."

"The greatest part of what is called morality is merely a device for making others do our will."

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