Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.