Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.

... 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.

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

The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.