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.

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

After 40, a man is responsible for his face.