Society and the World

The atoms of Democritus

And did those feet in ancient time

Mock on, mock on Voltaire, Rousseau:

Mock on, mock on Voltaire, Rousseau:

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars.

He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s.

The whore and gambler, by the State

The strongest poison ever known

The strongest poison ever known

A truth that’s told with bad intent

A robin red breast in a cage

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.

That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.

The king never dies.

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions … more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.