The history of mankind, said Dreed, has been a history of betrayals, the perennial betrayal of the common man by the men he has trusted.By the men the lazy, haphazard, childish oaf was too wilfully st...
A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.
The stranger did not go to church, and indeed made no difference between Sunday and the irreligious days, even in costume. He worked, as Mrs. Hall thought, very fitfully. Some days he would come down...
If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked.
The essence of the Revolution is to abolish the attainment of unqualified power of man over man either by vote-getting, money-pressure or crude terror. The Revolution repudiates profit or terror altog...
He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.
When we think of readapting mankind to a world of unity and co-operation, we have to consider that practically all the educational machinery on earth, is still in the hands of God-selling or Marx-sell...
NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as me...
Eight-and-twenty years,' said I, 'I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.'The old woman sat staring hard into the fire, her pale eyes wide open.'Ay,' she broke in; 'and eight-and-twenty ye...
A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would...
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
There are kisses and kisses, I am told, and this must have been quite the other sort from Millie's resonant signals of regard.
Dr. Chanter, in his brilliant History of Human Thought in the Twentieth Century, has made the suggestion that only a very small proportion of people are capable of acquiring new ideas of political or...
It doesn't follow that a nasty habit of mind is any less nasty because it's ancestral. It doesn't follow you can't cure it. Why scratch fleas for ever? Gambling, speculation, is a social disease. It's...
It's against reason, said Filby.What reason? said the Time Traveller.
It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.
Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiteracy of the mass of men and the conceit and intellectual indolence of rulers and those who feed the pub...
I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right to contentment. No man alive has a right to mental rest. No man has any right to be as stupid as educ...
When Man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. But not before.
I am just a human being — solid, needing food and drink, needing covering too — But I’m invisible. You see? Invisible. Simple idea. Invisible.
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