I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon, at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mere. I know nothing of the mother of Attila, but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims.

Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain who appears to possess the cour…

In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to b…

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul ... we're required …

Why , alas! is life decreed Full of pain and full of sorrow? All uncertain as it is, Can we rest upon to-morrow? Why should blessings yet in store, Hold us sti…

Two things can get people to make efforts: if people want to get something, or if they want to get rid of something. Only, in ordinary conditions, without know…