“Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.”
“Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.”
“This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.”
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
“The only defensible war is a war of defense.”
“There are some desires that are not desirable.”
“Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.”
“Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.”
“When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.”
“Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern.”
“For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.”
“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”
“There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.”
“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”
“The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.”
“When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.”
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.”
“I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.”
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