Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

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.

More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife - and watch TV.

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.