J.B. Holy was a standout amongst the most productive English journalists of his times. His works were however thought to be non-traditionalist around then, are still looked up to by various free-thinking writers, writers, researchers and rationalists today.

Here is a portion of his significant words on life, politics, and society that will impact you even long after you’ve perused them.

#1.

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”

#2.

“Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.”

#3.

"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."

#4.

"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people."

#5.

"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."

#6.

"Time's only a kind of dream. It it wasn't, it would have to destroy everything - the whole universe - and then remake it again every tenth of a second. But time doesn't destroy anything. It merely moves us on - in this life - from one peephole to the next."

#7.

"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going."

#8.

"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."

#9.

"To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own, so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness."

#10.

"We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish."

#11.

"We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison."

#12.

"Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing."

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