Any Subject Can Be Made Interesting, And

Never Could An Increase Of Comfort Or Security Be A Sufficient Good To Be Bought At The Price Of Liberty.

Wherever The Catholic Sun Doth Shine, There’s Always Laughter And Good Red Wine. At Least I’ve Always Found It So. Benedicamus Domino!

Torture Will Give A Dozen Pence Or More To Keep A Drab From Bawling At His Door. The Public Taste Is Quite A Different Thing Torture Is Positively Paid To Sing.

Even If The Wealth And Power Be Well Distributed Throughout A Community, Its Members Will Not Be Happy Unless They Are Inwardly So, And Obviously Where The Distribution Is Bad, Where The Few Have A Vast Superfluity And The Many Are Consumed By Anxiety Or Want, Or Where A Few Controllers Can Exercise Their Will Over The Many, Society Has Failed, Even Though Its Total Wealth And Power Be Increased.

One Man In One Mood Will Attack Industrial Capitalism For Its Destruction Of Beauty; Another For Its Incompetence; Another For The Vileness Of The Men Who Chiefly Prosper Under It; Another For Its Mere Confusion And Noise; Another For Its False Values; It Was Until Recently Most Fiercely Attacked For Its Impoverishment Of The Workers, Its Margin Of Unemployment And The Rest - Indeed So Fiercely That It Was Compelled To Seek Palliatives For The Evil. With A Mass Of Men It Was Attacked From A Vague But Strong Sense Of Injustice; It Allowed A Few Rich To Exploit Mankind.