Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD

Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the destruction of Germany. A month ago Europe was a peaceful comity of nations; if an Englishman killed a German, he was hanged. Now, if an Englishman kills a German, or if a German kills an Englishman, he is a patriot, who has deserved well of his country.

Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.