The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.

Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.