Who said “We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine…”?

“Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.”

“Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, ''How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?''”

“I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.”

“Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.”

“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.”

“The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.”

“Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.”

“Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.”

“We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.”