Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.