Certainly we ought to be discontented, we ought not simply to find out ways of making the best of a bad job, and yet if we kill all pleasure in the actual process of life, what sort of future are we preparing for ourselves? If a man cannot enjoy the return of spring, why should he be happy in a labour-saving Utopia? What will he do with the leisure that the machine will give him?

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for…

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.

Life has improved, comrades. Life has become more joyous.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.The cause whereof …