Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

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.

It is necessary to find ways of solving problem at the expense of available resources

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

And then she kissed him with tongue- on the bus.

Know what the best thing your true love can give you is?” I asked him.“What?” said Dash.“True love.

As far as he was concerned, there were only two all-important laws on earth:1. Don’t murder people.2. Never swear in front of Lilly.

Ella!" the voice yells, but I cannot tell where it is coming from. The sound wraps around me, spreading like spilt water and then evaporating into silence.

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.