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.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
Every cause produces more than one effect.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.