All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.

Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders -now that we are become men like gods. It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.