Society and the World

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

Gambling promises the poor what Property performs for the rich: that is why the bishops dare not denounce it fundamentally.

Gambling promises the poor what Property performs for the rich: that is why the bishops dare not denounce it fundamentally.

The most popular method of distributing wealth is the method of the roulette table.

The most popular method of distributing wealth is the method of the roulette table.

The imagination cannot conceive a viler criminal than he who should build another London like the present one, nor a greater benefactor than he who should destroy it.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

Mutiny Acts are needed only by officers who command without authority. Divine right needs no whip.

Mutiny Acts are needed only by officers who command without authority. Divine right needs no whip.

Every genuinely benevolent person loathes almsgiving and mendicity.

He who gives money he has not earned is generous with other people's labor.

He who gives money he has not earned is generous with other people's labor.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

The Master of Arts, by proving that no man has any natural rights, compels himself to take his own for granted.

The right to live is abused whenever it is not constantly challenged.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones.

The thieves had their revenge when Marx convicted the bourgeoisie of theft.