Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

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

What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.