The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.
Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.
No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?
I was told that The Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did not happen, as I might have become a god, which would have been very chic for an atheist.
While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don’t have any choice to make.
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.
Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.
Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.
Democracy has at least one merit, namely that a Member of Parliament cannot be stupider than his constituents, for the more stupid he is, the more stupid they were to elect him.
I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another.
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.
We need a science to save us from science.
The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.
The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.
Almost all education has a political motive.