It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.

... the average Catholic perceives no connection between religion and morality, unless it is a question of someone else's morality.

I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.