Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.