In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for their own interests and pleasures or for those of their own family or group, and therefore they are constantly interfering with one another's aims, and hurting one another and injuring one another, whether they mean it or not.

The Seven Storey Mountain (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998) - ISBN: 9780547543819