Society and the World

I want my attorney, my tailor, my valets, andeven my wife to believe in God, and I fancy that then I’ll be robbed and cuckolded less.

Very learned women are to be found, in thesame manner as female warriors; but they areseldom or never inventors.

Ce Corps qui s’appellait, & qui s’appelle encor, le saint Empire Romain, n’était en aucune maniére, ni saint, ni Romain, ni Empire .

That generous maxim, that it is much moreprudence to acquit two persons, though actually guilty, than to pass sentence of condemnationon one that is virtuous and innocent.

That generous maxim, that it is much moreprudence to acquit two persons, though actually guilty, than to pass sentence of condemnationon one that is virtuous and innocent.

If there were only one religion in England, there would be danger of tyranny; if there weretwo, they would cut each other’s throats; butthere are thirty, and they live happily togetherin peace.

If there were only one religion in England, there would be danger of tyranny; if there weretwo, they would cut each other’s throats; butthere are thirty, and they live happily togetherin peace.

E pluribus unus .

E pluribus unus .

[ Of Lucretius :] Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas .

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes .

Arma virumque cano .

Frères humains, qui après nous vivez ,

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent too. Words are used to disguise, notto illuminate, action: You liberate a city by destroying it. Words are used to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Science, my lad, has been built upon manyerrors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

Except for God, the King’s our only lord and master.

At what precise moment had Peru fucked itself up?

To say that war is madness is like sayingthat sex is madness: true enough, from thestandpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

Nous autres, civilisations, nous savons maintenant que nous sommes mortelles .

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

I have no respect for a man who can spell a word only one way.

God made man, without man’s consent, andmade his nature, too; made it vicious instead of angelic, and then said, Be angelic, or I will punish you and destroy you. But no matter, God is responsible for everything man does, all the same; He can’t get around that fact.There is only one Criminal, and it is not man.

[Christian nations are the most enlightenedand progressive] in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in child-birth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.

You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I’ll tell you what his ’pinions is.