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

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is today universal) actively promotes the absorption of the small man by the great, the reduction of small property owners to a proletarian condition.

In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

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 gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.