“All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.”

“Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun...”

“The struggle for power is universal in time and space and is an undeniable fact of experience. It cannot be denied that throughout historic time, regardless of social, economic and political conditions, states have met each other in contests for power. Even though anthropologists have shown that certain primitive peoples seem to be free from the desire for power, nobody has yet shown how their state of mind can be re-created on a worldwide scale so as to eliminate the struggle for power from the international scene. … International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power. Whatever the ultimate aims of international politics, power is always the immediate aim.”

“A condom prevents life. A gun takes life. Would a condom over the barrel of a gun prevent one life from taking another?”

“This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.”

“The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.”