The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.