Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be promoted, but if he shows any regrettable solidarity with his previous associates, the rulers will reluctantly conclude that there is nothing to be done with him except to send him to the lethal chamber before his ill-disciplined intelligence has had time to spread revolt. This will be a painful duty to the rulers, but I think they will not shrink from performing it.