What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way.

If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.

It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.

The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.