“[S]ocialism’s durability as a concept owes almost nothing to economics and almost everything to the desire for power…”

“"The bitterest sorrow that man can know is to aspire to do much and to achieve nothing"… so Herodotus relates that a Persian said to a Theban at a banquet (book ix., chap. xvi.). And it is true. With knowledge and desire we can embrace everything, or almost everything; with the will nothing, or almost nothing. And contemplation is not happiness — no! not if this contemplation implies impotence. And out of this collision between our knowledge and our power pity arises.”

“Almost everything comes from nothing.”

“To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true.”

“There is nothing wrong with compromising, even if you are compromising almost everything.”

“A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.”

“LADY BRACKNELL

Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?”

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”

“The economic and political power—and therefore police and military force—at the disposal of the owning class is almost illimitable, and is wielded with a ruthless determination to maintain privilege, prestige, and power.”

“Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.”