It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.