Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.

Geoff: We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism and from the left socialism without internationalism.

'Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.'

In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It …