Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective