...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.

Too few have the courage of my convictions.