And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.