Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.