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

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

A great social reformer.

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.