"...it is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. The people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good. They set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see. But their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it. Indeed, their remedies are part of the disease..."
"...what is said by great employers of labour against agitators is unquestionably true. Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation..." (Oscar Wilde: The Soul of Man under Socialism)















