She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.

Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And this is, in principle, how Hitler treated the Jews. They were objects; killed not for ill desert but because, on his theories, they were a disease in society. If society can mend, remake, and unmake men at its pleasure, its pleasure may, of course, be humane or homicidal. The difference is important. But, either way, rulers have become owners.