We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.