Charles Scott Sherrington Quotes

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.

Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

Eddie became about one percent less tense.

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

You never know. Say the arena's actually a giant cake-" "Say we move on," I broke in.

Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national institution, and the most refined scientific system of political and mental torture. We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can.

India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained.

In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.

People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote.

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on

I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.

Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.

When [books ban] happened, I felt completely alone and that was scary and sad.

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

There is more than one way to burn a book.

For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.

Dancing is so great because there are all the little details, and the little movements, and the little muscles that are working without you even realizing.

Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.