What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

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.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.