The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

Mom Voice - A mother's vocal range when even the neighbours will clean their rooms and eat their veggies.

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

You can't be the fastest gun in town forever. There comes a time when you're not the golden boy, and you have to go off somewhere and figure yourself out.

Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

Show me where you spend your time, money and energy and I'll tell you what you worship.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.

We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.