Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.