If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.