Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race—I am ashamed to belong to such a species.