America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.
Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.
What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.
Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.
There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn’t.
There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.
The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the ‘lower classes’ when we mean humanity minus ourselves.
Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.
A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.
If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.
Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.
He said he didn’t very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.