You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.