Society and the World

Man is a tool-making animal.

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

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Remember that time is money.

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.

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.

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.

Her voice is full of money.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

Hell, I never vote for anybody. I always vote against.

Hell, I never vote for anybody. I always vote against.

The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.

My tongue swore, but my mind’s unsworn. Hippolytus lamenting his breaking of an oath

Everything has two handles, by one of which it ought to be carried and by the other not.