Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. |
Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives |
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. |
Changeable women are more enduring than monotonous ones. They are sometimes murdered but seldom deserted. |
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time |
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time |
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. |
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it |
Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred. |
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. |
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. |
Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg |
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. |
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men |
Critics, like other people, see what they look for, not what is actually before them. |