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

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

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

In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they are no good at it. The whole idea smacks of the fumble-witted idealism of a high-school Marxist society.

When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.

Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming.

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