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.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.