One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?
I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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