Look at all your games, your sports, your athletics--I am being quite German now, and forgetting my mother, bless her!--they are merely devices for getting rid of the hours, and so not having to think.

You hate thought as a nation, and we live for it.

Music is thought; all art is thought; commercial prosperity is thought; soldiering is thought." "And we are a nation of idiots ?" asked Michael.
"No; I didn't say that.

I should say you are a nation of sensualists.
You value sensation above everything; you pursue the enjoyable.

You are a nation of children who are always having a perpetual holiday.