I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

Consider in what way the industrial system developed upon capitalist lines. Why were a few rich men put with such ease into possession of the new methods? Why was it normal and natural in their eyes and in that of contemporary society that those who produced the new wealth with the new machinery should be proletarian and dispossessed?

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

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

You are my cat, and I am your human.

... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally Godless, born in the same atmosphere of utter disregard for the foundational virtues of humility and charity. This hostile twin brother of Capitalism was destined to be called Communism, and is today setting out to murder its elder.