Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.