One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.