That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you should reexamine your tactics.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.