The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.

And what is impossible to science?

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

Without analysis, no synthesis.