Celia Green Quotes
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.
The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.
The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.
People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.
Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.
It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats
People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.
That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.
Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.
It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.
If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.
It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.
