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" If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. "

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" Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. "

" It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' "

" A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. "

" A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. "

" Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. "

" The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. "

" That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. "

" Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. "

" It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. "

" The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. "

" There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. "

" There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. "

" Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. "

" What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. "

" One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. "

" Maybe this world is another planet's hell. "

" There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. "

" Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. "

Good Intentions

" The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. "

" The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. "

" The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. "

" The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. "

" There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. "

" A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. "

" Every man's memory is his private literature. "

" Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? "

" Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. "