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.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...

It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.