I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

He who has never hoped can never despair

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

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

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.