Society and the World

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

I’m one of the undeserving poor … up agen middle-class morality all the time … What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

I’m one of the undeserving poor … up agen middle-class morality all the time … What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

You will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He

You will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.

Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.