Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.