Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.

One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that the bulk of the public expenditure of most civilized Governments consists in payment for past wars or preparation for future wars, the man who lends his money to a Government is in the same position as the bad men in Shakespeare who hire murderers. The net result of the man's economical habits is to increase the armed forces of the State to which he lends his savings. Obviously it would be better if he spent the money, even if he spent it in drink or gambling.

The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for all is to be derived rather from co-operation than from strife. I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.