Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.