Society and the World

The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Do not love your neighbor as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence: if on bad, an injury.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

WHEN I GET A LITTLE MONEY, I BUY BOOKS; AND IF ANY IS LEFT, I BUY FOOD AND CLOTHES.

You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.

FROM THE BEGINNING MEN USED GOD TO JUSTIFY THE UNJUSTIFIABLE.

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

HERESY IS ONLY ANOTHER WORD FOR FREEDOM OF THOUGHT.

HERESY IS ONLY ANOTHER WORD FOR FREEDOM OF THOUGHT.

I like the scientific spirit – the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

ONE MACHINE CAN DO THE WORK OF 50 ORDINARY MEN. NO MACHINE CAN DO THE WORK OF ONE EXTRAORDINARY MAN.

JUST LIVING IS NOT ENOUGH… ONE MUST HAVE SUNSHINE, FREEDOM, AND A LITTLE FLOWER.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

THE LOWEST AND VILEST ALLEYS IN LONDON DO NOT PRESENT A MORE DREADFUL RECORD OF SIN THAN DOES THE SMILING AND BEAUTIFUL COUNTRYSIDE.

THE LOWEST AND VILEST ALLEYS IN LONDON DO NOT PRESENT A MORE DREADFUL RECORD OF SIN THAN DOES THE SMILING AND BEAUTIFUL COUNTRYSIDE.

The city is recruited from the country.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.