The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.