Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.