Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim. The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Cruel men believe in a cruel God and use their belief to excuse their cruelty,

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect, my travels were very useful to me.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe— because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

Boys and girls should be taught respect for each others liberty, and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.

Love of power, in its widest sense, is the desire to be able to produce intended effects upon the outer world, whethen human or non-human.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to vote?

There is power over human beings and power over dead matter or non-human forms of life.

Language serves not only to express thoughts but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.

The power impulse has two forms: explicit, in leaders; implicit in their followers. When men willingly follow a leader, they do so with a view to the acquisition of power by the group which he commands, and they feel that his triumphs are theirs.