“Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.”
“It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.”
“Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.”
“Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.”
“Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.”
“It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.”
“I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.”
“Politics is a blood sport.”
“The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.”
“I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.”
“This is my truth, tell me yours.”