Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?

The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.