What I believe is a process rather than a finality.

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.

readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.

A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.