It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.