Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.