Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

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.

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.