“A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.”

“We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.”

“Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.”

“Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government.”

“I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.”

“There are more things in people that are rather worth of admiration than contempt.”