When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.

This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.

God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.

The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities - whether in communities of work or communities of culture or communities of artists - but in communities.