It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.

What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

Stupidity is much the same all the world over

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be considered to be any longer required, either for enabling us to know what is right and wrong in social morality, or for supplying us with motives to do right and to abstain from wrong.