Society and the World

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be avaluable thing, it would not have given them tosuch a scoundrel.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be avaluable thing, it would not have given them tosuch a scoundrel.

All Government without the Consent of the Governed , is the very Definition of Slavery .

Hence a commander who advances without any thought of winning personal fame andwithdraws in spite of certain punishment, whose only concern is to protect his people and promote the interests of his ruler, is the nation’s treasure.

The victorious army only enters battle afterhaving first won the victory, while the defeatedarmy only seeks victory after having firstentered the fray.

He who knows the enemy and himself

There has never been a state that has benefited from an extended war.

To win a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence; the highestexcellence is to subdue the enemy’s armywithout fighting at all.

To win a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence; the highestexcellence is to subdue the enemy’s armywithout fighting at all.

Warfare is the art of deceit.

Warfare is the art of deceit.

War is a vital matter of state.

War is a vital matter of state.

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements ofthis last convulsion.

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements ofthis last convulsion.

My soul an’t yours, Mas’r! You haven’t boughtit,—ye can’t buy it! It’s been bought and paid for, by one that is able to keep it.

My soul an’t yours, Mas’r! You haven’t boughtit,—ye can’t buy it! It’s been bought and paid for, by one that is able to keep it.

I learned three things in Zurich during thewar. I wrote them down. Firstly, you’re eithera revolutionary or you’re not, and if you’re notyou might as well be an artist as anything else.Secondly, if you can’t be an artist, you mightas well be a revolutionary . . . I forget the thirdthing.

Eliza made her desperate retreat across the river just in the dusk of twilight. The gray mist ofevening, rising slowly from the river, enveloped her as she disappeared up the bank, and theswollen current and floundering masses of icepresented a hopeless barrier between her andher pursuer.

I hate writing, but I love having written.

A. A violent order is disorder; and

La politique au milieu des intérêts d’imagination, c’est un coup de pistolet au milieu d’un concert . Politics in the middle of things concerning the imagination are like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.