Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and then I knew it was true.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated.