You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

A poem should not mean but be.

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....

[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.

The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself — without the assistance of governments.

Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism.

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.

Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.

Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

There will be plenty of blame to go around but if you take credit for the sunshine, you also get blamed for the rain.