I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do