When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.

The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained.

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.