Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties..

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum..

How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles..

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians..

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior..

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller..

We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die..

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life..

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by..

A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity..

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble..

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd..

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked..

We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping….

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist..

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure..

Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen..

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door..

This blessed gift of smoking!.

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing f….

Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end..