Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.