Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues.

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.