The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.