One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.

The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.