Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.