Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

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

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.