“There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.”

“Nonsense, this is my home and I must defend it. It’s time for Santa to get serious.”

“We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.”

“The United States does nothing about the gross morbid obesity, and nothing about the gross morbid stupidity, of its citizens.”

“Grosse plodders they were all, that had some learning and reading, but no wit to make use of it.”

“It is feasible and easy everywhere to undermine administrative power and, in fact, it has been drastically weakened in all Western countries. The defense of individual rights has reached such extremes as to make society as a whole defenseless against certain individuals. It is time, in the West, to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.”