... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.