The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.

Evil is that which one believes of others.

I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.