Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.

To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.