Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

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

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.

Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.