All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.