In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.