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

From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.