Society and the World

[Natural selection] has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

The expression often used by Mr Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate [than ‘Struggle for Existence’], and is sometimes equally convenient.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

listen: there’s a hell

a politician is an arse upon

There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.

I would not enter on my list of friends

I am monarch of all I survey,

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;

Knowledge dwells

In heads replete with thoughts of other men;

England, with all thy faults, I love thee still—

Slaves cannot breathe in England, if their lungs

Toll for the brave—

John Gilpin was a citizen

Poor little rich girl.

Don’t let’s be beastly to the Germans When our Victory is ultimately won.

A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.