To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

The ethical system of these men of the New Republic, the ethical system which will dominate the world state, will be shaped primarily to favour the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity — beautiful and strong bodies, clear and powerful minds, and a growing body of knowledge — and to check the procreation of base and servile types, of fear-driven and cowardly souls, of all that is mean and ugly and bestial in the souls, bodies, or habits of men.

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.