As long as there is poverty there will be gods.

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.