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.

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.

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Nothing is yet in its true form.