The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

All progress means war with society.

Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).

I want to be all used up when I die.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.