Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.

That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.

It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.