The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.