“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.