All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.