Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.

There is no bigot like the atheist.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.