Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Disorder created connections──that is, resonance.

Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.

I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable.

No one can see your life the way you see it.

Not every person is going to understand you and that's okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it.

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.

Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.

What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn't, but it wasn't hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.