So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.