The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a ‘case’, obscuring the opponent’s point of view and avoiding awkward questions.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

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

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.