Comfort is bought at too high a price.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts.

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.