I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines.... What business has science and capi...talism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem? Bits and pieces ... trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything el...se, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are ... those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebe...lling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population--the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring th...e majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back...; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »