It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

All problems are finally scientific problems.