Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.