All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.