If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.