The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.

Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

The nation... doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

Every time I come to Auburn it's nothing but love

What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.

The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.

I am afraid to piss in the morning 'cause I don't want to waste any of my excellence

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.