“It took just an ordinary stick to free the Jewish people.”

“Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.”

“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.”

“People pay money to go in there and that row thrown at them? Could stick your head in a bucket and whack it with a stick for free...”

“. . . there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.”

“I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary,' she said, sticking her chin in the air.”