The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy.

Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy, like spitting in public or the Roman games, is the proper activity of the lower intellectual and moral classes. It amounts to collusion in one's own suckering.

Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming.