Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

The restoration of property would be a complicated, arduous and presumably a lengthy business; the transformation of a Capitalist Society into a Communist one needs nothing but the extension of existing conditions.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.

To control the production of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth is to refuse him the opportunity for life; and, in general, the way in which the production of wealth is by law permitted is the only way in which the citizens can legally exist.

But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer by a word the modern world has forgotten: Persecution. When that shall once more be at work it will be morning.