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

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome.