Celia Green Quotes

People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

People having religions is an insult to the universe.

The human race believes in not taking its problems seriously enough to solve them.

Human nature: vindictiveness lightly coated with dishonesty.

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

'Social justice' - the expression of universal hatred.

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

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

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

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

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.

The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.

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

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