Society and the World

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

Money … is none of the wheels of trade: it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning, concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning, concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

Take away time is money, and what is left of England? take away cotton is king, and what is left of America?

Take away time is money, and what is left of England? take away cotton is king, and what is left of America?

I, too, sing America.

I, too, sing America.

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

Auream quisquis mediocritatem Diligit.

Integer vitae scelerisque purus.