Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to a….

The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreation….

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor.

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton..

Self-respect - The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious..

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been cau….

Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the othe….

Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life wou….

The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that y….

The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it..

Citizenship in New York is now worth no more than citizenship in Arkansas, for it is open to any applicant from the marshes of Bessarabia, and, still….

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation..

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark..

It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty..

One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing..

Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he fa….

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind..

The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite….

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops.

Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply throw up your job, spit on your hands, and wr….

When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed, the worst that ha….