One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.

Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.