Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.