Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.