There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

International sport is war without shooting.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.