"We look to Scotland for all our..." - Quote by Voltaire

“It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.”

“Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.”

“Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.”

“Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?”

“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.”

“It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.”

“I don't think culture is something you can describe.”

“Innovation is an ongoing process that you build into your culture.”

“[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.”