It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.