If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

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

Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism has come to be applied, is neither its functioning for profit nor its dependence upon legally protected private property; but the presence of a Proletariat, that is of men possessing political freedom, but dispossessed of economic freedom, and existing in such large numbers in any community as to determine the tone of all that community.

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by an organized proletariat for sustenance without relation to the product of its labor; a demand which threatens the very existence of PROFIT (on the necessary presumption of which Capitalism reposes). The second, and immediately graver danger is that of a revolt for the confiscation of the means of production.

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