If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.

Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.

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

Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the destruction of Germany. A month ago Europe was a peaceful comity of nations; if an Englishman killed a German, he was hanged. Now, if an Englishman kills a German, or if a German kills an Englishman, he is a patriot, who has deserved well of his country.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!