Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more than what is regarded in a partic….

Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well….

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied..

Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the public should feel him….

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty..

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the pla….

We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can wo….

Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest mater….

It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave became a serf and was on hi….

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real wo….

There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point which he is never told. ….

Money gives me pleasure all the time..

Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, ….

The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge) Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with br….

In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially if the wealth has been….

Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by an organized prole….

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men..

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue..

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about..

For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did..

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at ….