More from A Village Commune
- A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. Moths
- In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world’s youth.
- Petty laws breed great crimes.
- Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
- To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Last reviewed 2026-07-06