In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.