If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.
I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.