Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

Better never than late.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.