Celia Green Quotes

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is lucky to escape with his life.

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

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

It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.

When people talk about 'the sanctity of the individual' they mean 'the sanctity of the statistical norm'.

Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

Progress towards sanity is achieved by abandoning first the desire for omnipotence and then that for exceptional achievement.

People having religions is an insult to the universe.

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.

Astonishment is the only realistic emotion.

The object of the educational system is to make the child feel suitably guilty for the harm that has been done to him.

The human race knows enough about thinking to prevent it.

The basis of capitalism is that if a tiger rushes towards you, you need a gun. If you acquired a gun at some point in time previous to the tiger's attack, and have it ready to hand, this is useful. If you have not actually got a gun, but know that you could acquire one at some point in the future, this is not so good. The problem is to survive so as to reach the future. The essence of communism is that nobody may have guns unless everybody has guns, and the only way anybody can get guns is if the collective-at-large sees fit to make a universal issue. And you may not have a better gun than the collective sees fit to issue for everybody. So if the collective does not actually get round to issuing any guns at all, everybody will be equally likely to be eaten by tigers.

'Social justice' - the expression of universal hatred.