I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

Virtue is its own punishment.

There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Politics is a blood sport.

There is only one hope for mankind and that is democratic Socialism.

This is my truth, tell me yours.

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.