It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea.

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.