In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.