The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

All movements go too far.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.