Celia Green Quotes

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.

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

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

Society is everybody's way of punishing one another because they daren't take it out on the universe.

What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to predict events. These equations are, we would argue, the only realities we can be certain of in physics; any other ways we have of thinking about the situation are visual aids or mnemonics which make it easier for beings with our sort of macroscopic experience to use and remember the equations.

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

The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

The perception that existence exists invalidates the normal personality,as does the imminence of death.