Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.
C. E. M. JoadA man's style should be like his dress. It should be as unobtrusive and should attract as little attention as possible.
C. E. M. JoadIn the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.
C. E. M. JoadThere are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its truth, but to its definiteness. Incapable of either admitting the existence of contrary judgments or of suspending their own, they supply the place of knowledge by turning other men's conjectures into dogmas.
C. E. M. Joad