A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.