Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.