The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms

Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them

You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom

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

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires