And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.