Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny

Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife.

Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.

In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved.

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows.

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.