Society and the World

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The relation of superior to inferior excludes good manners.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

Equality is fundamental in every department of social organization.

The duke inquires contemptuously whether his gamekeeper is the equal of the Astronomer Royal; but he insists that they shall both be hanged equally if they murder him.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

Nothing can be unconditional: consequently nothing can be free.

A colonial Imperialist is one who raises colonial troops, equips a colonial squadron, claims a Federal Parliament sending its measures to the Throne instead of to the Colonial Office, and, being finally brought by this means into insoluble conflict with the insular British Imperialist, "cuts the painter" and breaks up the Empire.

A colonial Imperialist is one who raises colonial troops, equips a colonial squadron, claims a Federal Parliament sending its measures to the Throne instead of to the Colonial Office, and, being finally brought by this means into insoluble conflict with the insular British Imperialist, "cuts the painter" and breaks up the Empire.

Excess of local self-assertion makes a colonist an Imperialist.

Excess of local self-assertion makes a colonist an Imperialist.

Government presents only one problem: the discovery of a trustworthy anthropometric method.

Excess of insularity makes a Briton an Imperialist.

Excess of insularity makes a Briton an Imperialist.

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

Democratic republics can no more dispense with national idols than monarchies with public functionaries.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

The flunkeyism propagated by the throne is the price we pay for its political convenience.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. When the process is interrupted by adversity at a critical age, as in the case of Charles II, the subject becomes sane and never completely recovers his kingliness.

The Court is the servant's hall of the sovereign.

He who slays a king and he who dies for him are alike idolaters.