He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

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.

A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.