Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.

No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.