“Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.”

“Every man has within himself the entire human condition”

“Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.”

“The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.”

“The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.”

“On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.”