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

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.