Society and the World

He who gives money he has not earned is generous with other people's labor.

He who gives money he has not earned is generous with other people's labor.

Every genuinely benevolent person loathes almsgiving and mendicity.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

The Master of Arts, by proving that no man has any natural rights, compels himself to take his own for granted.

The right to live is abused whenever it is not constantly challenged.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones.

The thieves had their revenge when Marx convicted the bourgeoisie of theft.

Those whom we called brutes had their revenge when Darwin shewed us that they are our cousins.

Decency is Indecency's Conspiracy of Silence.

If we could learn from mere experience, the stones of London would be wiser than its wisest men.

The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

He who believes in education, criminal law, and sport, needs only property to make him a perfect modern gentleman.

He who believes in education, criminal law, and sport, needs only property to make him a perfect modern gentleman.

Moderation is never applauded for its own sake.

The North American Indian was a type of the sportsman warrior gentleman. The Periclean Athenian was a type of the intellectually and artistically cultivated gentleman. Both were political failures. The modern gentleman, without the hardihood of the one or the culture of the other, has the appetite of both put together. He will not succeed where they failed.

The North American Indian was a type of the sportsman warrior gentleman. The Periclean Athenian was a type of the intellectually and artistically cultivated gentleman. Both were political failures. The modern gentleman, without the hardihood of the one or the culture of the other, has the appetite of both put together. He will not succeed where they failed.

A modern gentleman is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner. Such combatants are patriots in the same sense as two dogs fighting for a bone are lovers of animals.

A modern gentleman is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner. Such combatants are patriots in the same sense as two dogs fighting for a bone are lovers of animals.

No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

The true diagnostic of modern gentility is parasitism.

A gentleman of our days is one who has money enough to do what every fool would do if he could afford it: that is, consume without producing.