As a nation we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed

Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.

Our civilization appears to’ve fallen so deeply into the habit of invasion that we cannot even obey a simple order of the Imperium without the old ways cropping up.

In the days ahead we must not consider it unpatriotic to raise certain basic questions about our national character.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

Pastimes and games are substitutes for the real living of real intimacy.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

I cannot afford the luxury of sentiment, mine must be cold logic. Sentiment is for others.

We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't like that really, I mean...one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold...d'you see what I mean?

Empathy and emotions do not equate to knowledge or true understanding about others’ circumstances.

We must remember that the rationalistic attitude of the West is not the only possible one and is not all-embracing, but is in many ways a prejudice and a bias that ought perhaps to be corrected.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship