Anger and Indignation

I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

If you injure your neighbor, better not do it by halves.

All scoundrelism is summed up in the phrase "Que Messieurs les Assassins commencent!"

THE FASCINATION OF SHOOTING AS A SPORT DEPENDS ALMOST WHOLLY ON WHETHER YOU ARE AT THE RIGHT OR WRONG END OF THE GUN.

I WISH PEOPLE WEREN’T SO SET ON BEING THEMSELVES, WHEN THAT MEANS BEING A BASTARD.

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

People who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature.

Working for Warner Bros is like fucking a porcupine - it's a hundred pricks against one.

Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

The smaller the heart, the bigger the hate it shelters.

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate the man then you destroy yourself.

Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him… He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.

The crime of the Germans is truly the most abominable ever to be recorded in the history of the so-called civilized nations. The conduct of the German intellectuals—seen as a group—was no better than that of the mob.

I have now been promoted to an “evil monster” in Germany, and all my money has been taken away from me. But I console myself with the thought that the latter would soon be gone, anyway.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

God damn you all: I told you so.

Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres.

Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.

Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit Litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto Vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram.

You [the Mensheviks] are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on—into the dustbin of history!