The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.