Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.