The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.