In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.