Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

The basis for optimism is sheer terror.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.