Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.