The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

Justice is what you get when you run out of money.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.