Television is the triumph of machine over people.
Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.
Property is impossible.
All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.
it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.
We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.
The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.