The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

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.

Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

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

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

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