The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.

The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.

The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.