"The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are…"

"The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration i…"

"There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics."

"When God made Baluchistan, he laughed."

"Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its ex…"

"I don’t believe a committee can write a book. ... It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps. But I don’t believe it can w…"

"[T]he equation of religion with belief is rather recent."

"India is the central link in a chain of regional civilizations that extends from Japan in the far north-east to Irela…"

"[T]he dogma that History is just "one damned thing after another...""

"We have been Godlike in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbitlike in o…"