“If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines.” IfsMenWantWarReasonDoneFightingAtheismSubjectsBetrayalPositive AtheismDoctrineCivilizedTyrantsBetray Book:Social Darwinism: selected essays Source: Social Darwinism: selected essays
“Civilized people can talk about anything. For them no subject is taboo.... In civilized societies there will be no intellectual bogeys at sight of which great grownup babies are expected to hide their eyes.” PeopleEyeSubjectsBabyIntellectualSightExpectedCivilizedTabooCivilized SocietyGrownups Author:Clive Bell
“There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes it hard for them to live together. But the fact that in civilized societies mothers-in-law are such a favourite subject for jokes seems to me to suggest that the emotional relation involved includes sharply contrasted components. I believe, that is, that this relation is in fact an 'ambivalent' one, composed of conflicting affectionate and hostile impulses.” BelieveHardFactsSeemsTogetherLawMotherI BelieveRoomsDoubtSubjectsEmotionalSonInvolvedJokesRelationPsychologicalImpulseCivilizedFavouriteHostileComponentsHostilityIn-lawsAffectionateCivilized SocietyMother In LawAmbivalentSon-in-law Book:Totem and Taboo Source: Totem and Taboo
“But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.” WantWritingSongOrderSubjectsSafeCivilized Author:Suzanne Vega