Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in education, of State medicine and the rest, is developing into the slave, leaving the rich man apart and free. All industrial civilization is clearly moving towards the re-establishment of the Servile State.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

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.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.