Society and the World

He [the Briton] is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Oh, you are a very poor soldier—a chocolate cream soldier!

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;

As he was valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world

Then, then we’ll end that stupid crime, that devil’s madness—War.

When we, the Workers, all demand: ‘What are WE fighting for?’ …

When we, the Workers, all demand: ‘What are WE fighting for?’ …

A promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

It’s no fish ye’re buying—it’s men’s lives.

It’s no fish ye’re buying—it’s men’s lives.

O what a tangled web we weave,

O Caledonia! stern and wild,

And the stern joy which warriors feel

‘He’s a cheery old card,’ grunted Harry to Jack