Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.