Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

Even God has been defended with nonsense.

The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.