Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

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.

The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.