The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.

The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.