The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.