…it is wrong… to imagine that the currently fashionable and approved constitutes the work of permanent importance.  

Alan Bold (1970)
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It is necessary for the socialist poet to have more impressive technical equipment than his apolitical contemporaries because his task is that much more important.

Alan Bold, The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse (1970)
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Modern English polite society… seems to me as corrupt as consciousness of culture and absence of honesty can make it. A canting, lie-loving, fact-hating, scribbling, chattering, wealth-hunting, pleasure-hunting, celebrity-hunting mob.

George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist (1883)
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“With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbol for things. One will live. … Most people exist, that is all.”

Oscar Wilde, The Soul Under Socialism (1891)
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