For the majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.

Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it not only as a final and indispensable entity, but also as, in the main, beneficent. The mass-man, ignorant of its history, regards its character and intentions as social rather than anti-social; and in that faith he is willing to put at its disposal an indefinite credit of knavery, mendacity and chicane, upon which its administrators may draw at will.

The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.