It is not the young people that degenerate,they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
年輕人并不墮落;他們只有在成年人已經(jīng)墮落時才會被寵壞。
人們變得文明,不在于他們愿意相信的程度,而在于他們愿意懷疑的程度。
毀滅過往所有文明的原因在于財富和權(quán)力的不均分配傾向。
發(fā)明的進步使人類擁有了世紀前最大膽的想象也無法夢見的力量。