When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.