Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

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.

To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a happier place. This is due to a variety of causes, of which the chief is tradition, and the next most powerful is the unjust power of dominant classes.

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

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.

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?