The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.

Morality in sexual relations, when it is free from superstition, consists essentially in respect for the other person, and unwillingness to use that person solely as a means of personal gratification, without regard to his or her desires.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.

No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.