Society and the World

The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world.

The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world.

Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.

Decadence can find agents only when it wears the mask of progress.

In moments of progress the noble succeed, because things are going their way: in moments of decadence the base succeed for the same reason: hence the world is never without the exhilaration of contemporary success.

No man dares say so much of what he thinks as to appear to himself an extremist.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty: what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty: what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.