“Adultery is the application of democracy to love.”

“The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.”

“Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses.”

“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.”

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”

“Socialism, Puritanism, Philistinism, Christianity—he saw them all as allotropic forms of democracy, as variations upon the endless struggle of quantity against quality, of the weak and timorous against the strong and enterprising, of the botched against the fit.”

“Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.”