Celia Green: Trending quotes (page 2)

“What is scandalous is not that stupid people should sometimes inherit private incomes; but that clever people should sometimes not.”

“It is when the commercial factor enters into the situation that the possibility of genuine individual liberty arises.”

“In the universe there is room for an infinite series of beginnings.”

“In an unenlightened society some people are forced to play degrading social roles; in an enlightened society, everyone is.”

“The human race knows enough about thinking to prevent it.”

“When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.”

“Children need admiration rather than affection.”

“Astonishment is the only realistic emotion.”

“Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.”

“In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.”

“Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.”

“I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.”

“Society is a self-regulating mechanism for preventing the fulfilment of its members.”

“People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.”

“People having religions is an insult to the universe.”

“The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.”

“Now if anyone were reminded about the inconceivable by the fact of existence at all constantly, he would sooner or later have the perception that there may be inconceivable considerations which are inconceivably more important than any conceivable consideration could be.”

“Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learned to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense. This is why they talk so much about the value of human understanding and sympathy - it has a certain rarity value in their world.”

“Democracy: everyone should have an equal opportunity to obstruct everybody else.”