Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.