Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.