So, yes, I should have just surrendered, took the entitled heir her little pouch of privileges, made my calls to the power brokers, did my duty. I thought about that moment later on. Maybe I got...

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict. That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of...

God also needs money to sustain his existence on this earth.

Money is necessary in everyone's life. Why? Only because people have decided that it should be. It didn't have to be the way that it has become. If nothing came at the price of money, it wouldn't need...

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes...

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury....

The divine order of human society from primeval days was based upon certain rights conveyed by the Creator. The right of position, next to God; the right to procreate, in order to be in charge; the...

The historian's task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but it is to tell what is almost always an uncomfortable story and explain why the discomfort is part of the truth we need to live well and...

Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment, you and I are engaged in an essentially antiquated...

She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?

To lead by force all you need is a greater army, but to lead by example, to be a city on a hill, you need an uncompromising respect for basic dignity. And you don't gain either of those things by...

Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!

Until we realize that we are the children of the Almighty God and start acting like His representatives on the earth, nothing will change in our country

Fight for change? Thirst for difference? Start talking about what men avoid talking about.

Women not only bear the burden of societal expectations surrounding beauty and youth, but they also perpetuate these standards themselves—every time we dye our hair to hide gray or downplay our age,...

Pretty women with no soul like paintings on the wall

When women agree with me I always do the other thing

Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!

Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don't insult anybody with their performances, and they neither sing nor dance...

People believe what they are told.

Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to coordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.

Bread and Circuses

If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold immortality to the rich a long time ago.

There would be fewer absent fathers, if straight men were turned on only by women with whom they would not mind having children.

. . . Mrs. Arcanum considered foreign parts only marginally less unspeakable than private parts. . .

Oh, measure it all out! Acceptable levels of misery and suffering! The cane swung down, thumped hard on the ground. Acceptable? Who the fuck says any level is acceptable? What sort of mind thinks...