That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?
Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture. . . have simply made us all members of one class.
No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.
I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.
Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.
A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.