Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.