There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?

The object of powder is powder.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.