“Don't use that exotic word "ideals". We have a good enough native word: "lies".”

“There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.”

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”

“A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.”

“Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?”

“I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.”

“Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that ‘walks’ in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sands of the sea. And then we are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.”