Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

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.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.