Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.