We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

Attractions are proportional to destinies.

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.