It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising' by Winston Fletcher - the impression you get from reading this book, which covers post-war advertising until the present, is of a chaotic, self-serving, occasionally brilliant but ultimately shallow business.

I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict.

Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.