
“There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Source: Economic Philosophy (1962), p. 45
“There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Source: Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters (1857), pp. 44-45
“Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment …”
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 10
This misattribution is sourced from John Toland. In Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography (1976), it is attributed to Hitler in a speech of May 1, 1927. It is recorded in Thoughts about the Tasks of the Future by Gregor Strasser on June 15, 1926.
Misattributed
“Psychics exploit the human being's natural desire that longs for something higher than themselves.”
TV appearances
Remarks delivered at the World Economic Forum https://www.georgesoros.com/2018/01/25/remarks-delivered-at-the-world-economic-forum/ (25 January 2018)