Political Ideals

they will know and feel that individuality brings differences and uniformity means death.

Worst of all influences are those that thwart or twist a man's fundamental impulse, which is what shows itself as conscience in the moral sphere; such influences are likely to do a man an inward danger from which he will never recover.

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

It is not enough that there should be a Hague tribunal, deciding matters according to some already existing system of international law; it is necessary also that there should be a body capable of enacting international law, and this body will have to have the power of transferring territory from one state to another, when it is persuaded that adequate grounds exist for such a transference.

The object of education ought not to be to make all men think alike, but to make each think in the way which is the fullest expression of his own personality.

if the victors of to-morrow are not to become the oppressors of the day after

if the victors of to-morrow are not to become the oppressors of the day after.

men are to have free play for their creative impulses, they must be liberated from sordid cares by a certain measure of security, and they must have a sufficient share of power to be able to exercise initiative as regards the course and conditions of their lives.

modify the life of impulse in the desired direction.

whenever any new fundamental issue arises, the majority are in the wrong, because they are guided by prejudice and habit. Progress comes through the gradual effect of a minority in converting opinion and altering custom.