Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

When all experts agree, you need to watch out.

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.