It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.