Society and the World

I’d like to get away from earth awhile

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Technology … the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it.

All that matters is love and work.

There is an invisible hand in politics that operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. In politics, individuals who seek to promote only the public good are led by an invisible hand to promote special interests that it was no part of their intention to promote.

There is an invisible hand in politics that operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. In politics, individuals who seek to promote only the public good are led by an invisible hand to promote special interests that it was no part of their intention to promote.

The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’

Man is a tool-making animal.

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

Remember that time is money.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

They [the poor] have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

They [the poor] have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

See that little stream—we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk it—a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.