All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.