A Concern With The Perfectibility Of Mankind

There Are Dons Who Care For The Intellect And The Imagination, And There Are Priests Who Care For The Spirit; But Broadly Speaking The Function Of Universities And Churches Alike Is To Trim And Tame Enthusiasm, To Suppress Curiosity, And, In Short, To Whittle Immortal Souls Into Serviceable Props Of The Established Order.

It Is Difficult To Love Mankind Unless One Has A Reasonable Private Income, And When One Has A Reasonable Private Income One Has Better Things To Do Than Loving Mankind.

Behind The Big Names Of Twentieth-century Literature There Stands A Shadow Cabinet Of Writers Waiting To Take Over Once The Wind Of Change Has Blown. My Own Vote Goes To Hugh Kingsmill As Leader Of This Opposition.

The Public Mind [is] A Cloudy Region Where Only The Simplest Shapes Are Discerned With Any Accuracy.

Society Is Based On The Assumption That Everyone Is Alike And No One Is Alive.