“It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.”

“To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.”

“There are on occasions, as we know, when resources are abundant, but they are expended so incompetently that the advantage is nullified.”

“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”

“The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.”

“The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.”

“In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.”

“Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.”