I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.
German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now.
The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
There is only one universal passion fear.
We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.
Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.
It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.
The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.
Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.
There is nothing in religion but fiction.
I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.
The person I miss most is the one I could have been.
NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e.
Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.
If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.