There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.

Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.

Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.

I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?

I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous.

War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.

Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more stupid they were to elect him.