The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle...

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.