Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.