“The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats...”

“Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.”

“Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are—there we are in the Golden Future.”

“Men—’ said Miss Williams, and stopped.As a rich property owner says ‘Bolsheviks’—as an earnest Communist says ‘Capitalists!’—as a good housewife says ‘Blackbeetles’—so did Miss Williams say ‘Men!”

“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.”

“The political perspective of this book, ironically, is the progeny of the progressive potential of capitalism as an historical system. The joint possibility of universal material well-being and the democratization of society is a product of the capitalist era. But the history of capitalism is a chronicle of the tension between possibilities and limits: democracy and universal affluence in perpetual and ubiquitous conflict with class domination - itself a product of the social organization of capitalist production.”