There may be no good reasons for very many opinions that are held with passion.

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

I used, when I was younger, to take my holidays walking. I would cover 25 miles a day, and when the evening came I had no need of anything to keep me from boredom, since the delight of sitting amply sufficed.