It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to set up an effective control of currency, credit, production, and distribution – that is to say, an effective ‘dictatorship of prosperity,’ for the whole world. The other sixty odd States would have to join in or accommodate themselves to the over-ruling decisions of these major Powers.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.