The moderns do not realize modernity.

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.