The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.

But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end.

She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.

Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

I'm okay with multinational marriage, foreigners are also alright. Mixed blood babies are so pretty.

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

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.