If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.