One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.

If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

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.

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.