Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

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

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.