Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.