Society and the World

He gave man speech, and speech created thought,

Hell is a city much like London.

I met Murder on the way—

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

I never was attached to that great sect,

The trouble, Mr Goldwyn, is that you are only interested in art and I am only interested in money.

‘Do you know what a pessimist is?’ ‘A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.’

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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.

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